to make a loud sound like pieces of metal hitting each other; to cause sth to make this sound:
[V] clanking chains * [V-ADJ] I heard a door clank shut. * [VN] The guard clanked his heavy ring of keys.
clank (also clanking) noun [usuallysing.]
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