Read full poem →The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
Dictionary Entry
A loud, sharp metallic sound, or the act of making such a sound.
In a Sentence
“The metal pipes fell with a loud clank.”
Origin
Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “clank”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →His bridle-reins were golden chains,
And, with a martial clank,
At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel
Read full poem →With joy:--but not in chains to pine:
His spirit withered with their clank,
I saw it silently decline--
Read full poem →Down there they are dubious and askance; there nobody thinks as I,
But mind-chains do not clank where one’s next neighbour is the sky.
Read full poem →They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun--hark to
the musical clank,
Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop
Read full poem →now,
The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even
the sight of the wounded,)
Read full poem →That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
Tallying and talk’d to here by tongues aromatic,
Read full poem →The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the
clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,
Read full poem →Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
Do you hear the clank of the muskets?