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[syn: peal, pealing, roll, rolling]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Peal \Peal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pealed (p[=e]ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Pealing.]
1. To utter or give out loud sounds.
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There let the pealing organ blow. --Milton.
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2. To resound; to echo.
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And the whole air pealed
With the cheers of our men. --Longfellow.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pealing
n 1: a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn:
peal, pealing, roll, rolling]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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