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make the welkin ring en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To make a loud noise.
    • The 0-8-4 with its 13 six-wheel coaches generally managed to keep "neck-and-neck" with the Tredegar 0-6-0 and its load of five or six coaches, but the combined effort made the welkin ring and excitement reigned among both the train-crews and passengers. 1953 April, J. M. Dunn, “Memories of the L.N.W.R. 0-8-4 Tank Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 237:
  2. (idiomatic) To celebrate or revel.
    • There was nothing like that spirit which, when the heart goes with the decree of the ruler, makes the welkin ring with its unregulated rejoicings. 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter IV, page 44:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
making the welkin ring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ring the welkins alternative lexicographic
makes the welkin ring Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
made the welkin ring Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made the welkin ring Tense=Past lexicographic