clangour

Etymology

noun

  1. (Britain, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
    1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love, And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.

verb

  1. (Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
    It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb. 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67

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