clank
pronunciation
How to pronounce clank in British English:
UK [klæŋk]
How to pronounce clank in American English:
US [klæŋk]
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- Noun:
- a loud resonant repeating noise
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- Verb:
- make a clank
Word Origin
- clank (v.)
- 1610s, perhaps echoic, perhaps a blend of clang (v.) and clink (v.), perhaps from a Low German source (compare Middle Dutch clank, Dutch klank, Old High German klanc, Middle Low German klank, German Klang).
- clank (n.)
- 1650s, from clank (v.). Reduplicated form clankety-clank attested from 1895.
Example
- 1. The gate shut with a dull clank .
- 2. No matter how the clank like to read classical poetry , I was very like .
- 3. Ratchet and clank future tools of destruction .
- 4. The clank of metal upon stone .
- 5. I heard the clank of buckets as the farm workers went to milk the cows .