sb. dial. [Echoic.] ‘A loud, hollow sound’; ‘a heavy blow or fall producing such a sound.’ So Thunge v. (Eng. Dial. Dict.).

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1849.  ‘Tom Treddlehoyle,’ Bairnsla Ann., Feb. (E.D.D.). Sho wor startald wi a thunge at t’ chaimber door.

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1863.  J. H. Burrow, Advent. Alfan, 350. He lay down … and listened to the thunges of the battering-ram.

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1881.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Thunge … (2) sb. a thump; a heavy fall. ‘I come down sich a thunge.’

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1887.  S. Cheshire Gloss., Thunge, s. (1) a loud, hollow sound…. It is the word always used to imitate the sound of a gun.

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