make the welkin ring
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 welk
welkin
UK /ˈwɛlkɪn/ US /ˈwɛlkən/
noun 3
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noun
1
The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
He leaues the vvelkin vvay moſt beaten playne, / And rapt with vvhirling vvheeles, inflames the ſkyen, / With fire not made to burne, but fayrely for to ſhyne.
The ſkye it ſeemes vvould povvre dovvn ſtinking pitch, / But that the Sea, mounting to th' vvelkins cheeke, / Daſhes the fire out.
2
The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
[W]ho you are, and vvhat you vvould are out of my vvelkin, I might ſay Element, but the word is ouer-vvorne.
Rhotus was going on when day appear'd, / And with its light the cloudy welkin clear'd.
3
The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
[T]his villanous Poetry vvill vndoe you, by the VVelkin.
Hovv glittereth novv this place of great requeſt, / Like to the ſeat of heavenly vvelkin hie?
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