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A diminutive of the male given name Henry.
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A diminutive of the male given name Hankin (a medieval form of John).archaic
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A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- 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 smo
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A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
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Doubt, difficulty.Ulster
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Mess, tangle.Ulster
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A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
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Hold; influence.obsolete
- Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]
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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.
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To form into hanks.transitive
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To fasten with a rope, as a gate.UKdialectaltransitive
- where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye