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Definition of Clanging
1. Adjective. Having a loud resonant metallic sound. "A clanging gong"
Definition of Clanging
1. Verb. (present participle of clang) ¹
2. Noun. A noise that clangs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clanging
1. clang [v] - See also: clang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clanging
Literary usage of Clanging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... To hear the clanging bells ring out from every tower and steeple ; To see our
glorious flag flung wide all through the loyal land ; To know at last the ..."
2. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"... should give us confidence when" evil seems impending: : " How many times have
I seen the fire-engines of church and state clanging and lumbering along ..."
3. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-book Exhibiting the Development by Edwin Troxell Freedley (1859)
"... as the artisan contributes his mite to the vast sum of toil ; whilst many a
stately edifice, with its hundreds of employees and clanging machinery, ..."
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