Clomp

/klɒmp/ · noun

Meaning

The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly..

Definitions by Sense

1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
2. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
3. (transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

Example Sentences

There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house.

"Hello?" he called toward the closed door. "Anybody here?" Somebody must have heard him, because he heard something move on the opposite side of the door. First a distant sound like animals grunting, then a clomp, clomp, clomp like boots approaching.

Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices.

[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […]

The next day I couldn't use my black pair to school and in order not to spoil my white pair I used my bakias or wooden clogs instead. As I clomped into the classroom, for I was late that morning, my school teacher—a German nun—looked up and I saw her face wrinkle with displeasure, […]

Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed.

My exasperation turned to horror with the realisation that a cat cast in plaster would sink which sent me scrambling for the scoop net. Adding insult to injury, the bystanders cheered his [the cat's] undignified retrieval. With a mortified hiss and yowl he clomped with bedraggled hauteur below decks.

[W]e clomped up the steep rear concrete steps to the main (study hall) level and entered the hallway, where we then quite innocently clomped with our well-worn brogues into the study hall, where we sat to await the appearance of Witch Robinson.

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• clomps
• clomping
• clomped
• klomp

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