Pealing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peal \Peal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pealed} (p[=e]ld); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Pealing}.]
     1. To utter or give out loud sounds.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              There let the pealing organ blow.     --Milton.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To resound; to echo.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And the whole air pealed
              With the cheers of our men.           --Longfellow.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pealing
       n : a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn:
           {peal}, {roll}, {rolling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "pealing":
     booming, cannonading, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang,
     clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, deafening, ding,
     ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ear-piercing,
     ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full,
     fulminating, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell,
     knelling, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, peal, peal ringing,
     piercing, plangent, resounding, ring, ringing, roaring, rolling,
     rumbling, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian,
     stentorious, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, ting,
     ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus,
     tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling,
     tonitruant, tonitruous, volleying, window-rattling