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hank
1. a loop, coil, or skein, as of rope, wool, or yarn
2. Nautical a ringlike fitting that can be opened to admit a stay for attaching the luff of a sail
3. a unit of measurement of cloth, yarn, etc., such as a length of 840 yards (767 m) of cotton or 560 yards (512 m) of worsted yarn
hank [haŋk]
(textiles)
A unit of measure of yarn or thread equal to 840 yards (768.096 meters) for cotton, and 560 yards (512.064 meters) for first-grade wool.
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Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread him- self out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
Such a sallow-faced girl: if she put on a bit of pink ribbon, she looked as yellow as a crow-flower and her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Trap-robber, horse-thief, squaw-man, renegado - Hank Butters - I know him very well.
A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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