Found 4 hits - Term: hank, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hank \hank\, v. t.
1. oe. hanken. to fasten with a rope, as a gate. prov.
eng. --wright.
1913 webster
2. to form into hanks.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hank \hank\ ha^ngk, n. cf. dan. hank handle, sw. hank a
band or tie, icel. hanki hasp, clasp, h"onk, hangr, hank,
coil, skein, g. henkel, henk, handle; all probably akin to e.
hang. see hang.
1. a parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or
thread tied together.
1913 webster
2. a rope or withe for fastening a gate. prov. eng.
1913 webster
3. hold; influence.
1913 webster
when the devil hath got such a hank over him. --bp.
sanderson.
1913 webster
4. naut. a ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to
the edge of a sail and running on a stay.
1913 webster
5. wrestling a throw in which a wrestler turns his left
side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his
opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him
backward.
webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
hang
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
hank
n : a coil of rope or wool or yarn
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 moby thesaurus words for "hank":
animal fiber, artificial fiber, capillament, cilium, cirrus,
cobweb, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum,
gossamer, hair, skein, strand, suture, tendril, thread, threadlet,
web
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