ring the welkins

ring the welkins (third-person singular simple present rings the welkins, present participle ringing the welkins, simple past rang the welkins, past participle rung the welkins)

1. Alternative form of make the welkin ring
   • 1953, T.V. Smith, “Democratic Apologetics”, in Ethics, LXIII, № 2 (January 1953), pages 103-4:

     Now it ill becomes those who sneer at the stridency of our partisanship to change “the party line” on one another without warning — as in poor Browder’s case — and then ring the welkins, on one side, with the most intemperate denunciations and, on the other side — especially in Russia — with the most abject breast-beatings of confessed guilt.