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Clangour

//ˈklæŋɚ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din. British, Canada, countable, uncountable

    "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; […]"

  2. 2
    a loud resonant repeating noise wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a clanging sound. British, Canada

    "It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb."

  2. 2
    make a loud resonant noise wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin clangor.

Etymology 2

From Latin clangor.

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