clopping
1
7.7
- noun
- /ˈklɒpɪŋ/
:
sonido de cascos
- I went back to bed, and gradually I became the rider of the horse, and the clopping along of the hooves, the rhythm of the horse's movements calmed me and helped me sleep.
- clopping horses
- clopping sound
- clopping of hooves
Examples
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As the carriage approached, I could hear the distinct clopping of horses' hooves on the cobblestone street.
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The passing traffic made a pleasant clopping sound that could be heard occasionally beneath the insistent tinny beat of a Latin Calypso AM station.
Fiction book (1997) -
Without warning, the echo of the bells was lost in the clopping sounds of horses' hooves on the streets of the old town.
Fiction book (1996) -
On Grover Avenue, he could hear the clopping of horses drawing carriages into the park.
Fiction book (1999) -
The reader is so fully drawn in that one can almost hear the clopping of carriage horses' hooves and feel the chill surrounding fog.
Blog text (4) -
It was a melodious clopping sound now, the sound of a horse in full gallop on a cobblestone street.
Fiction book (1992) -
The air echoed with the shouts of many men, the clopping of many horses, and the shrill, ringing clangor that sounded all day from the forge.
Fiction book (1993) -
Jacob listened to the clopping hooves of the bullock and wondered if the bullock's black eyes had rested on Alice as she walked in the marketplace.
Fiction book (2001) -
While he stood tall in the sun, speaking and remembering to pray for the afflicted and the hungry, the lonely and the sad people without helpmates, he saw a brilliant red movement between trees and heard a clopping of horse's hooves, then saw a glimpse of the unmistakable lean-muscled horse, Redshirt, running, its tail flying out behind it.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sound of clopping hooves echoed through the quiet town as the riders made their way to the festival.
Synonyms
6
4.3
The sound a horse's hoof makes when it hits the ground
4
7.9
A short loud sound made when a horse's hoof hits a hard surface
2
7.7
The heavy dull sound horse hooves make when they hit hard ground
1
5.1
The sound horse hooves make when they hit a hard road in a steady regular beat
1
9.0
A steady sound of horse hooves on a hard road
1
7.7
A quick series of soft clicking sounds from machines or hard things hitting together
A series of quick, sharp sounds like train wheels or high heels
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clopping comes from the simple sound word clop, a word that copies the 'clop-clop' noise made by hooves. So clopping is the steady 'clop' of a horse's hooves hitting a hard surface.