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Clang   /klæŋ/   Listen
noun
Clang  n.  
1.
A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. "The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang."
2.
(Mus.) Quality of tone.


verb
Clang  v. t.  (past & past part. clanged; pres. part. clanging)  To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. "The fierce Caretes... clanged their sounding arms."


Clang  v. i.  To give out a clang; to resound. "Clanging hoofs."





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"Clang" Quotes from Famous Books



... never for one brief moment calm, even at its lowest ebb—now, on this last night of the long, weary week, all the currents and counter-currents of the worker's world were suddenly released. At the stroke of bell, at the clang of deep-mouthed gong, at the scream of siren whistle, the sluice-gates were lifted from the great human reservoirs of factory and shop and office, and their myriad toilers burst forth with the cumulative ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... the Shepherd of the Shadows said: "Yea, many thus would bargain for their dead; But when they hear my fatal gateway clang Life quivers in them with a last sweet pang. They see the smoke of home above the trees, The cordage whistles on the harbour breeze; The beaten path that wanders to the shore Grows dear because they shall not tread it more, The dog that drowsing on their threshold lies Looks at them with their ...
— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton
... adventurous prospectors who came from the exhausted placers of California would discover some rich ore—how much or little mattered not at first. These specimens fell among excited seekers after wealth like sparks in gunpowder, and in a few days the wilderness was disturbed with the noisy clang of miners and builders. A little town would then spring up, and before anything like a careful survey of any particular lode would be made, a company would be formed, and expensive mills built. Then, after all the machinery was ready for the ore, ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... a horrid clang As on mount Sinai rang While the red fire and smouldering clouds outbrake: The aged Earth agast With terrour of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When at the worlds last session, The dreadful Judge in middle ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... It was the seventh month of the year 1281 when the expectant sentinels of Japan caught the glint of the sun's rays on the far-off throng of sails, which whitened the seas as they came on with streaming banners and the warlike clang of ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris


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