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makes the welkin ring

makes the welkin ring is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make the welkin ring.

Meaning of make the welkin ring

Verb

make the welkin ring (third-person singular simple present makes the welkin ring, present participle making the welkin ring, simple past and past participle made the welkin ring)

  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

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Makes the welkin ring is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make the welkin ring.

Words near makes the welkin ring in the dictionary

  1. makes the passes
  2. makes the perfect the enemy of the good
  3. makes the rounds
  4. makes the running
  5. makes the weather
  6. makes the welkin ring
  7. makes the world go around
  8. makes the wrong turn at Albuquerque
  9. makes things interesting
  10. makes tick
  11. makes time

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