clunk

I feed it coins and watch the spring coil back,the clunk of a vacuum-packed, foil-wrappeddream dropping into the tray.

Embellishments were large and cumbersome—so much so that the dresses seemed to clink and clunk as the models walked the runway.

As to the word clunk, it is in use throughout Cornwall in the sense of "to swallow," and is undoubtedly Celtic.

It had in it the jingle of saber chains, the creak of sweaty saddle-girths, the nimble clunk of hurrying hoofs.