Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ding

Ding (ding) , transitive verb

[Old English dingen, dengen; akin to Anglo-Saxon dencgan to knock, Icelandic dengja to beat, hammer, Swedish danga, German dengeln.]

1.
To dash; to throw violently. [Obsolete]
To ding the book a coit's distance from him. — Milton
2.
To cause to sound or ring.
Collocations (1)
To ding (anything) in one's ears , to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Ding , intransitive verb

1.
To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obsolete]
Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. — Piers Plowman
2.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. — W. Irving
3.
To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]

Ding , noun

A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.