Clunking [verb]

As to the word clunk, it is in use throughout Cornwall in the sense of "to swallow," and is undoubtedly Celtic.

It had in it the jingle of saber chains, the creak of sweaty saddle-girths, the nimble clunk of hurrying hoofs.

But three minutes later he had dropped down to earth with a heavy clunk.

And immediately afterward the clungk, clunk—clungk, clunk of mighty hoofs coming down the passage toward us.

And suddenly the clungk, clunk—clungk, clunk recommenced and passed onward down the passage.

He drummed his fingers on top of the machine for a moment and then it stopped chunking and something inside it went clunk.

At the touch of a button, the door swung shut with an authoritative clunk and shutters slid down over the window.

For forty year we've bin tould that war was wrong; and now to be tould it be our duty—well, you see, we ca'ant clunk it.

Clunk, klungk, n. the sound of a liquid coming out of a bottle when the cork has been quickly drawn.