CLANGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clanging mean? 

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

1. having a loud resonant metallic sound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLANGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a loud resonant metallic sound

Synonyms:

clanging; clangorous

Context example:

a clanging gong

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Then, when he sprang out upon it, it would transform itself into an electric car, menacing and terrible, towering over him like a mountain, screaming and clanging and spitting fire at him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then there came the sound of many feet tramping and dying away in some passage which sent up a clanging echo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the clanging.

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

The train pulled in to Sixteenth Street Station, and the waiting electric car could be seen, the conductor of which was impatiently clanging the gong.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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)

As I opened my door I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had fallen.

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

The car started with a great clanging of its gong, and, as Jimmy's gang drove off the last assailants, they, too, jumped off to finish the job.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in the northern woods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)