D defs.my
Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Clank

/(klăṉk)/ · IPA /ˈklæŋk/
01 n. A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding …
  1. 1.
    A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
    “But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank.” Byron.
02 v. t. To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
imp. & p. p. Clanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clanking
  1. 1.
    To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
03 v. i. To sound with a clank.
  1. 1.
    To sound with a clank.