Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Clank

Clank (klank) , noun

[Akin to clink, and of imitative origin; compare German klang sound, Dutch klank. Compare Clang.]

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. — Byron

Clank , transitive verb

To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

Clank , intransitive verb

To sound with a clank.