- Create loud and noisy knock to start with - Metallic sound - Rattle of chain makes a hundred limp - 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. - To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank
their chains. - To sound with a clank.