Hank

Definitions

1. A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Henry.
3. A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
4. A diminutive of the male given name Hankin (a medieval form of John).
   archaic
5. Doubt, difficulty.
   Ulster
6. Mess, tangle.
   Ulster
7. A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
8. Hold; influence.
   obsolete
9. 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.

Equivalents

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Examples

“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 […]”

“Cotton twist⟳ is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […]”

“[…] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.”

“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.”

“He found a hank of clothesline on a counter.”

“Seldom doth a man fall⟳ into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]”

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