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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The 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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Thesaurus Results for Pealing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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