Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metallic sound, sharp and hard but not resonant.
- intransitive verb To make a sharp, hard, metallic sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sharp, hard, metallic sound: as, the clank of chains or fetters.
- To cause to sound with a clank: as, to
clank chains. See the noun. - To give a ringing blow to.
- To sound with or give out a clank.
- To deposit, put, place, or set down with a clanking sound.
- To move with a clanking sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To sound with a clank.
- noun A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than
clang , and a deeper and stronger sound thanclink . - transitive verb To cause to sound with a clank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A loud, hard
sound ofmetal hitting metal, especially such arepetitive sound. - verb intransitive To make a
clanking sound
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a loud resonant repeating noise
- verb make a clank
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Somewhere in the distance a train was shunting; _clank, clank, clank_ went the wagons.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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The fact that it lost that high pitched clank is probably due to the fact that the recoil lugs are now mostly seated due to work-lapping and peening.
A Shovelful of Salt 2006
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I hear a metallic "clank" as I start to walk across the ramp.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2006
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Clapping hands, smacking counter tops, stomping shoes on tile-they all have a nice "clank", "thud", or "bom" which delight a curious 13-month-old.
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It makes such a satisfying "clank" when your vote is cast, like it weighs something.
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The corridors, she realized, had rubber mats so you could not hear sounds outside your cell, which heightened your surprise and panic when your cell door would clank open.
Howard Kissel: Eva Zeisel: 1906-2011 Howard Kissel 2012
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The corridors, she realized, had rubber mats so you could not hear sounds outside your cell, which heightened your surprise and panic when your cell door would clank open.
Howard Kissel: Eva Zeisel: 1906-2011 Howard Kissel 2012
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The corridors, she realized, had rubber mats so you could not hear sounds outside your cell, which heightened your surprise and panic when your cell door would clank open.
Howard Kissel: Eva Zeisel: 1906-2011 Howard Kissel 2012
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Behind him, Gideon heard the clank of a rifle bolt slamming home.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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She tossed the iron into the brazier, where it landed with a metallic clank.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
yarb commented on the word clank
My dead bottle thuds in the bin with the same dull clank
as the Curfew Bell has in the Garden of Rest at 8.
- Peter Reading, Curfew, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word clank
Which has more gravitas, or evinces more gravity due to the size or mass of the object making the sound: clink, clank, or clunk? (Cf. dicsusions @ cheese grits - grit-groat-grout)
September 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word clank
klearly it's klunk!
September 24, 2009
bilby commented on the word clank
Vot about Kolonel Klink?
September 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word clank
"I know NUSSINK!"
September 24, 2009