Blanker vs Clanker - What's the difference?

As a verb blanker

is .

something that makes a clanking noise.

(head)

(blank)

* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

And lonely as it is, that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

With no expression, nothing to express.

(en noun)

(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.

* 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)

These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

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(en noun)

Something that makes a clanking noise.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 9, author=Jennifer Dunning, title=Choreographic Evidence That Laughing Matters, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The robots, designed by Kenjiro Okazaki, are cardboard tubes rather than the usual metal clankers . }}

(slang) A fib.

Stop telling clankers !