CLANKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clanking mean? 

• CLANKING (adjective)
  The adjective CLANKING has 1 sense:

1. having a hard nonresonant metallic sound

  Familiarity information: CLANKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLANKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a hard nonresonant metallic sound

Context example:

the clanking arms of the soldiers near him

Similar:

noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)

 Context examples 

“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)

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)

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)

Close at his heels came sixteen squires, all chosen from the highest families, and behind them rode twelve hundred English knights, with gleam of steel and tossing of plumes, their harness jingling, their long straight swords clanking against their stirrup-irons, and the beat of their chargers' hoofs like the low deep roar of the sea upon the shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rider was a stern-faced man, hard of mouth and dry of eye, with a heavy sword clanking at his side, and a stiff white bundle swathed in linen balanced across the pommel of his saddle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)