clampering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of clamper

1. A cacophony made by noisy movement.

   Hush — there's a clampering in the trance. It's the rush o' critics frae the pit o' the theatre.

   1867, John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ - Volume 1, page 409

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   And should any of my readers find their spirits too ethereal, their souls too rapidly mounting on eagles' wings, I recoomend them to try the cooling sedative of six monghs' residence in a manufacturing town, amid the clanking, grinding, droning sound of factory machinery, the hammering of boiler-making, the clampering of clogs, the screeching of railway engines, and the hissing of steam, under the dark, lowering canopy of incessant torrents of smoke; and I think wthey will be effectually cured of any such symptoms.

   1860, Walter Chamberlain, Isaiah's Call to England: being an exposition of Isaiah the eighteenth, page x

   With a swift clampering of feet, Joe's horses pulled the stage ahead and onto the finish line, just in time.

   1981, Susan Alton Schmeltz, Just for you, →ISBN, page 82

   John Eaton and Cecily his wife were persecuted by Longland for, inter alia, being noticed by 'certain in the parish' holding down their heads in church, and not looking at the Sacrament, and for saying in a butcher's house at the sound of the bells, 'What a clampering of bells is here!'

   1994, David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography, →ISBN, page 183

comparative more clampering · superlative most clampering

1. cacophonous; raucous.

   On thy farewell shall pen out many a verse ; And garlands gay shall vestal virgins fling On thy cold grave, whiles clampering bells do ring.

   1974 -, George Bagshawe Harrison, A second Elizabethan journal, →ISBN

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   He had no sooner lifted up the square board, or door, than the cats all came in a head, leaped over him, put out the candle, and rushing among the affrighted servant's legs, threw one half of them down ; and having gained their liberty, made such a clampering, rattleing, and jingleing noise, as I never before witnessed, or heard tell of.

   1833, John Close, The satirist: or, Every man in his humour, page 125

   Moreover it was decided by that tiresome Martha, the housemaid, that “Miss Lucy lugged the dirt in shameful 'with them nasty clampering boots, and it was one's work to clean the hall after her.”

   1864, Louis Sand, For Life: A Story : in Two Parts, page 16