CLANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clank mean? 

• CLANK (noun)
  The noun CLANK has 1 sense:

1. a loud resonant repeating noise

  Familiarity information: CLANK used as a noun is very rare.

• CLANK (verb)
  The verb CLANK has 1 sense:

1. make a clank

  Familiarity information: CLANK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud resonant repeating noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash

Context example:

he could hear the clang of distant bells

Hypernyms ("clank" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

clank (make a clank)

• CLANK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clank    ... he / she / it clanks   
Past simple: clanked   
Past participle: clanked   
-ing form: clanking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a clank

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

the train clanked through the village

Hypernyms (to "clank" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

clank (a loud resonant repeating noise)

 Context examples 

As he moved, a chain clanked; to his wrists were attached fetters.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Is there an archer here hight Sam Aylward?” asked a gaunt man-at-arms, clanking up to them across the courtyard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A hasty suspicion seemed to strike Uriah; and, with a glance at Mr. Micawber, he went to it, and threw the doors clanking open.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A moment was allowed for the first thrill to subside, then Hugo, the villain, stalked in with a clanking sword at his side, a slouching hat, black beard, mysterious cloak, and the boots.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But there was one particular nightmare from which he suffered—the clanking, clanging monsters of electric cars that were to him colossal screaming lynxes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With a clank of arms, the rough archers and seamen took to their knees, with bent heads and crossed hands, listening to the hoarse mutter from the file-leaders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I implored the colonel to let me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cries.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bands of armed men clanked along the highway, and the few lines of laden mules which carried the merchandise of the trader were guarded by armed varlets, or by archers hired for the service.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)