Usually means: Metallic objects hitting, producing sound.
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  1. clanking: Merriam-Webster
  2. clanking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clanking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clanking, clanking: Wordnik
  5. clanking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Clanking, clanking: Dictionary.com
  7. clanking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Clanking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. clanking: Rhymezone
  10. Clanking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. clanking: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clanking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. clanking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. clanking: Wiktionary

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  1. clanking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clanking)

▸ noun:  A noise that clanks.

Similar:
noisy, clattering, clinking, clanging, clunking, clacking, clanker, chinking, jangle, clinker, more...

Types:
jangling, tinkling, rattling, clinking, more...

Phrases:
making a clanking sound, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, metallic, ceaseless, much, distant, heavy, rhythmic, dull, faint, monotonous



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Similar:
noisy, clattering, clinking, clanging, clunking, clacking, clanker, chinking, jangle, clinker, more...

Types:
jangling, tinkling, rattling, clinking, more...

Phrases:
making a clanking sound, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, metallic, ceaseless, much, distant, heavy, rhythmic, dull, faint, monotonous



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