tolling
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tolling}.]
To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated
at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to
announce the death of a person.
[1913 Webster]
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "tolling":
change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor,
clank, clanking, clink, death bell, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong,
dinging, dingle, donging, funeral ring, jangle, jingle,
jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, passing bell, peal,
peal ringing, pealing, ring, ringing, sounding, ting, ting-a-ling,
tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular,
tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll
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