hank
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English
Etymology
From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæŋk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æŋk
Noun
hank (plural hanks)
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Coordinate term: skein
- 1681, E.R., The Experienced Farrier, London, p. 307,
- […] the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose, is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread, and hang it cross a stick, and set one end of it on fire […] and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils […]
- 1796, Thomas Pennant, “History of Holywell Parish,”, in The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, London: B. and J. White, page 217:
- Cotton twist is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […]
- 1859, George Eliot, chapter 9, in Adam Bede, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 181:
- […] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.
- 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 14, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 131:
- The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.
- 1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 9, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
- He found a hank of clothesline on a counter.
- (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
- (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- (obsolete) Hold; influence.
- 1636 July, Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Aulam.] Sermon IV. Beuvoyr, July 1636”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 43, page 59:
- Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]
- (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.
Translations
coil or loop
nautical: ring or shackle to secure staysail
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Verb
hank (third-person singular simple present hanks, present participle hanking, simple past and past participle hanked)
- (transitive) To form into hanks.
- (transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
- 1573, Richard Dering, “Accounts Book”, in The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, John Nichols, published 1823:
- where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye
Translations
To form into hanks
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Further reading
hank (unit of measure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hǫnk.
Noun
hank f or m (definite singular hanka or hanken, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)
- a handle (e.g. on a cup)
References
- “hank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
hank m (definite singular hanken, indefinite plural hankar, definite plural hankane)
hank f (definite singular hanka, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)
- a handle (e.g. on a cup)
References
- “hank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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