[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That clangs: see the verb.
1576. [see CLANG v.1 1].
1735. Somerville, Chase, II. 186. The clanging Horns swell their sweet-winding notes.
1842. Tennyson, Sir Galahad, i. They reel, they roll in clanging lists.
1871. Palgrave, Lyr. Poems, 26. Pelion … whence a cry Of clanging eagles vex’d the summer sky.
Hence Clangingly adv.
1859. Tweedie, Ruined Cities of East (1867), 10. From whose reeds the swans of old rose clangingly.
