From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gong \Gong\, noun [AS. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. See {Gang}.] A privy or jakes. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Gong farmer}, {Gong man}, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. [Malayan (Jav.) g[=o]ng.] An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.
O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. --Longfellow.
2. (Mach.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also {gong bell}.
{Gong metal}, an alloy (78 parts of copper, 22 of tin), from which Oriental gongs are made.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick [syn: {tam-tam}]
2: a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer [syn: {chime}, {bell}]
verb
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "gong": battery, bell, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, chink, church bell, clang, clangor, clank, clapper, clappers, clink, cowbell, crash cymbal, cymbals, ding, dingdong, dinner bell, dinner gong, dong, doorbell, finger cymbals, fire bell, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong bell, hand bell, handbells, idiophone, jangle, jingle, jingle bell, jinglejangle, knell, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, passing bell, peal, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rattle, rattlebones, ring, ring changes, sacring bell, sheepbell, sizzler, sleigh bell, snappers, sound, sound a knell, tam-tam, telephone bell, ting, tingle, tink, tinkle, tintinnabula, tintinnabulate, tintinnabulum, toll, tongue, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone
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