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noun

Ding n. A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

verb

Ding v. t. (past & past part. dinged, obs. dang, or obs. dung; pres. part. dinging)

To dash; to throw violently. (Obs.) "To ding the book a coit's distance from him."

To cause to sound or ring.

To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Ding v. i.

To strike; to thump; to pound. (Obs.) "Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves."

To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. "The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes."

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. (Low)

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"Ding" Quotes from Famous Books

... procession. "Gin I had the loon that did it," she went on, fumbling, with a haste that defeated itself, at the knot that bound Hawkie's nose to the tail of the cadger's horse—"gin I had the loon 'at did it, I wad ding the sowl oot o' ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... experience, merely our own nicknames for things, they would not pass the walls of the Garden inhabited by each man's imagination. "Expression" would be possible, but "communication" would be impossible, and indeed there would be no recognizable terms of expression except the "bow-wow" or "pooh-pooh" or "ding-dong" of the individual Adam——and even these expressive syllables might not be the ones ...

— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry

... as soon as I intended. I stayed for the night, while the wind and the rat and the sash and the window-bolt played a ding-dong "hundred and fifty up." Then the wind ran out and the billiards stopped, and I felt that I had ruined my ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clash, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, ...

— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... that the little robin had shouted, "Ding-a-ling! ding-a-ling!" for hardly had they reached the top of the hill when the school bell commenced: "Ding, dong! ding, ...

— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory

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