/klæŋk/
- A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
- intransitiveTo make a clanking sound
“The chains clanked.”
“Slung from his shoulders clanks a two-handed sword, the pommel a huge star-ruby carven in the image of a heart, for the heart is his sign and symbol.”
“Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.”
- transitiveTo cause to sound with a clank.
“The prisoners clank their chains.”
Formsclanks(plural) · clanks(present, singular, third-person) · clanking(participle, present) · clanked(participle, past) · clanked(past)