[f. CLANG v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb CLANG.
1842. Tennyson, Gard. Dau., 38. The windy clanging of the minster clock.
1855. H. Reed, Lect. Eng. Hist., iii. 86. The clanging of the lances.
1869. J. Raven, Ch. Bells Cambr. (1881), 68. Amidst the clanging of all the church bells.