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Definition of hank in English:

hank

noun haŋkhæŋk
  • 1A coil or skein of wool, hair, or other material.

    (羊毛、头发等的)一圈,一束

    a thick hank of her blonde hair

    她的粗粗的一绺金发。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Enthused by Mysorean strands, Bangalore's Smitha Cariappa visually interpreted the local silk industry, transformed into hut-like spaces embellished by rangoli, hanks of silk, and symbolic silkworm evolution.
    • It is larger and has fewer eaters and is it revolves at 150 to 200 revolutions per minute, it requires no feed rollers to hold the hanks of fibre which are submitted to its operation.
    • Either version is good savored alone or dipped into one of the little pitchers of warm sauce that come with each order - or snugged into a hank of floppy white bread and consumed with a hit of sweet-sour sauce and crisp white onion.
    • Large, hard-boned dogs crack their skulls on the smoky rubbish wasteland on the edge of town, hanks of gory sheepskin lie in the turgid filth and multi-species dung.
    • Jenny's dark hair had been brushed out and tied with ribbon and it lay in a soft hank across her shoulder.
    • She smiled and kissed the Coyote; he'd been fun, but now he was an exhausted hank of fur, panting hard in the back of the booth.
    • But most of these are continental in flavour, with hanks of Parma ham hanging from the ceiling and boxes of Pannatone piled high.
    • All around are souvenir stands selling anything from T-shirts and badges through to ‘Hog Hair’ - a kind of biker Jimmy Wig with a hank of human hair attached to a bandana - and leather, leather and yet more leather.
    • A woman can be seen through a doorway; she is seated and feeding a hank of yarn to someone out of sight.
    • Suki and colleagues have taken the more conservative position that physical forces merely dissect the tissue as if it were a hank of rope under tension (their analogy).
    • Seems her feet got dirty at the friends house a dozen times before I ripped hanks of hair from my head and tossed them into the air.
    • I figured better a little wet on me than a lot of wet all inside the house, so I grabbed the ladder and took a hank of cord and dodged out back up the garden wall onto the roof.
    • Snarled hanks of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.
    • She picked up a hank of noodles with her chopsticks.
    • In Thao Van's other basket are the accessories, piles of chopped coriander, mint and spring onion; huge hanks of fresh rice noodles, white as marble.
    • There was a lot of cutting seams and scrap thread and yarn, but I managed to get a few small hanks out of the left side panel of the cardigan.
    • I would return to feed you black hanks of kelp from each fist.
    • He pushed hanks of auburn back out of his eyes and held the spiral-linked booklet out towards me.
    • I so often read about people loving variegated yarns on the hank, but hating it, when it's knitted up.
    • Earlier European instruments, from the 16th century onwards, had bars laid on hanks of straw.
    Synonyms
    coil, skein, length, roll, bunch, clump, loop, twist, piece
    shock, lock, ringlet, curl
  • 2A measurement of the length per unit mass of cloth or yarn, which varies according to the type being measured. For example it is equal to 840 yards for cotton yarn and 560 yards for worsted.

    (一)绞,(一)亨克(布匹或纱线的长度单位,因被测物的不同而不同,如棉纱为840码,毛纱为560码)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I left the Studio with some nice stuff, pictured here. 2 hanks of the lovely Rio de la Plata (the other Uruguayan yarn), 2 hanks of Ironstone mohair, and 1 hank of Ironstone cotton tape.
    • Cyril, don't let them leave without a couple hanks of wool as well, eh?
    • Harry flung the hank at the commuter, the larger quantity of the line making a ‘plunk’ as it hit LEAF WINE's coachroof.
    • This enables the dyer to create hanks of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking.
    • They buy the cotton from the Sangham office for Rs.25 a kg and can get 13-15 hanks if the cotton is good.
  • 3Sailing
    A ring for securing a staysail to the stay.

    〔航海〕帆眼圈

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hank has a generally cylindrical body member with a longitudinal channel therethrough large enough to accommodate and slide on a stay on which it is adapted to be mounted.
    • A hank is provided for rapidly attaching a sail to a stay.
    • We can also reduce to total cost of the your roller furling package by taking your hank on sails in trade.
    • Place the hank on the eyelet location, facing you on the selected side of the sail.
    • Foam padded luffs etc help but its still not tight like a hank on sail.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse hǫnk; compare with Swedish hank 'string' and Danish hank 'handle'.

Rhymes

ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank

Definition of hank in US English:

hank

nounhaNGkhæŋk
  • 1A coil or skein of yarn, hair, rope, or other material.

    (羊毛、头发等的)一圈,一束

    a thick hank of her blonde hair

    她的粗粗的一绺金发。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Seems her feet got dirty at the friends house a dozen times before I ripped hanks of hair from my head and tossed them into the air.
    • Earlier European instruments, from the 16th century onwards, had bars laid on hanks of straw.
    • I would return to feed you black hanks of kelp from each fist.
    • It is larger and has fewer eaters and is it revolves at 150 to 200 revolutions per minute, it requires no feed rollers to hold the hanks of fibre which are submitted to its operation.
    • I figured better a little wet on me than a lot of wet all inside the house, so I grabbed the ladder and took a hank of cord and dodged out back up the garden wall onto the roof.
    • A woman can be seen through a doorway; she is seated and feeding a hank of yarn to someone out of sight.
    • But most of these are continental in flavour, with hanks of Parma ham hanging from the ceiling and boxes of Pannatone piled high.
    • He pushed hanks of auburn back out of his eyes and held the spiral-linked booklet out towards me.
    • Suki and colleagues have taken the more conservative position that physical forces merely dissect the tissue as if it were a hank of rope under tension (their analogy).
    • There was a lot of cutting seams and scrap thread and yarn, but I managed to get a few small hanks out of the left side panel of the cardigan.
    • Snarled hanks of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.
    • Either version is good savored alone or dipped into one of the little pitchers of warm sauce that come with each order - or snugged into a hank of floppy white bread and consumed with a hit of sweet-sour sauce and crisp white onion.
    • Enthused by Mysorean strands, Bangalore's Smitha Cariappa visually interpreted the local silk industry, transformed into hut-like spaces embellished by rangoli, hanks of silk, and symbolic silkworm evolution.
    • She smiled and kissed the Coyote; he'd been fun, but now he was an exhausted hank of fur, panting hard in the back of the booth.
    • I so often read about people loving variegated yarns on the hank, but hating it, when it's knitted up.
    • Jenny's dark hair had been brushed out and tied with ribbon and it lay in a soft hank across her shoulder.
    • All around are souvenir stands selling anything from T-shirts and badges through to ‘Hog Hair’ - a kind of biker Jimmy Wig with a hank of human hair attached to a bandana - and leather, leather and yet more leather.
    • Large, hard-boned dogs crack their skulls on the smoky rubbish wasteland on the edge of town, hanks of gory sheepskin lie in the turgid filth and multi-species dung.
    • She picked up a hank of noodles with her chopsticks.
    • In Thao Van's other basket are the accessories, piles of chopped coriander, mint and spring onion; huge hanks of fresh rice noodles, white as marble.
    Synonyms
    coil, skein, length, roll, bunch, clump, loop, twist, piece
  • 2A measurement of the length per unit mass of cloth or yarn, which varies according to the type being measured. For example, a hank is equal to 840 yards for cotton yarn and 560 yards for worsted.

    (一)绞,(一)亨克(布匹或纱线的长度单位,因被测物的不同而不同,如棉纱为840码,毛纱为560码)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I left the Studio with some nice stuff, pictured here. 2 hanks of the lovely Rio de la Plata (the other Uruguayan yarn), 2 hanks of Ironstone mohair, and 1 hank of Ironstone cotton tape.
    • Cyril, don't let them leave without a couple hanks of wool as well, eh?
    • Harry flung the hank at the commuter, the larger quantity of the line making a ‘plunk’ as it hit LEAF WINE's coachroof.
    • This enables the dyer to create hanks of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking.
    • They buy the cotton from the Sangham office for Rs.25 a kg and can get 13-15 hanks if the cotton is good.
  • 3Sailing
    A ring for securing a staysail to the stay.

    〔航海〕帆眼圈

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hank has a generally cylindrical body member with a longitudinal channel therethrough large enough to accommodate and slide on a stay on which it is adapted to be mounted.
    • A hank is provided for rapidly attaching a sail to a stay.
    • Foam padded luffs etc help but its still not tight like a hank on sail.
    • We can also reduce to total cost of the your roller furling package by taking your hank on sails in trade.
    • Place the hank on the eyelet location, facing you on the selected side of the sail.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse hǫnk; compare with Swedish hank ‘string’ and Danish hank ‘handle’.

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