gong
/ɡɔŋ/ noun B2- A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
- A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
Plural gongs
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The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady “Ding-dong-tock!
Bertuccio!” cried he, striking a light hammer with a pliant handle on a small gong.
Ali,” cried he, striking at the same time on the brazen gong.
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