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Definition of Clunking
1. Noun. The sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface.
Definition of Clunking
1. Verb. (present participle of clunk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clunking
1. clunk [v] - See also: clunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clunking
Literary usage of Clunking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (1890)
"... therefore, the " clunking tonies " of the Pentland Firth may mean the little
devils of the sea, and the epithet clunking may refer to the hollow sound ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"So deeply sank the artless strain His soul forgot the clunking chain ; Only a
shudder told he knew The moment when the minstrel flew. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... of future pain— Worse by fur is fancied freedom than the captive's clunking
chuin." t His final arrest and imprisonment, at the instance of the English ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1853)
"... clunking, or rather agains' his enemies, where cester. In general, this writer
is itl-in- it is most valuable; that is, in his account formed of ..."
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