0 present participle of clank --
1 to make a short loud sound like that of metal objects hitting each other, or to cause something to make this sound: --
Certain kinds of bubens are equipped with clanking metal rings, plates, cymbals, or little bells.
This results in a clanking, less crisp sound, but at the same time results in a bell that is lighter and thus easier to carry.
Somebody cries in laughter, a whistle, the station bell, the clanking locomotive... whispers, shouts, farewells.
The presence of the draisine is registered only through the clanking sound of the wheels on the tracks.
A clanking replicator can be considered to be a form of artificial life.
Before stepping through the big gate, one can hear the clanking of the coppersmiths hammers in the distance.
Friday afternoon, we heard the metal tracks of a tank clanking on the pavement.
The building was weatherstripped during the 1950s as part of renovations, but roof leaks, clanking radiators, faulty plumbing, and sagging floors persisted.
