clangour

plural clangours · alternative Canada US clangor

1. CanadaUKcountableuncountableA loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.

   H. G. Wells' stark short story "The Cone" tells of a man's macabre revenge worked out in the clangour of a great steel works and railway lines and sidings.

   1957 May 28, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349

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   When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]

   [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 80

   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.

present singular third person clangours · participle present clangouring · participle past clangoured · past clangoured · alternative Canada US clangor

1. CanadaUKTo 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