What does hank mean?
Hank means A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope..
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/ˈhæŋk/ · noun
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 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, […]
where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye
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Hank means A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope..
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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 […]
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