pealing

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pealing - 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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pealing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pealing
      n 1: a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn:
           peal, pealing, roll, rolling]

pealing - 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