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noun
A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
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; […]
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.
verb
To make a clanging sound.
It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.