make the welkin ring

verb

To make a loud noise.

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Meanings

verbmake the welkin ring (third-person singular simple present makes the welkin ring, present participle making the welkin ring, simple past and past participle made the welkin ring)

present singular third person makes the welkin ring · participle present making the welkin ring · participle past made the welkin ring · past made the welkin ring · alternative ring the welkins

  1. To make a loud noise.

    The 0-8-4 with its 13 six-wheel coaches generally managed to keep "neck-and-neck" with the Tredegar 0-6-0 and its load of five or six coaches, but the combined effort made the welkin ring and excitement reigned among both the train-crews and passengers.

    1953 April, J. M. Dunn, “Memories of the L.N.W.R. 0-8-4 Tank Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 237
  2. idiomaticTo celebrate or revel.

    There was nothing like that spirit which, when the heart goes with the decree of the ruler, makes the welkin ring with its unregulated rejoicings.

    1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter IV, page 44
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