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▪ I. trank1 Glove-making.|træŋk|
[? ad. F. tranche a cutting.]
An oblong piece of kid or other skin from which a glove is to be cut out; also, a glove-shape cut from this, before being sewn.
1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. xxvi, The cutters cut the skins into tranks (the shape of the hand in outline) with the separate thumbs and forgits [= side-pieces of fingers]. 1894Times 17 Aug. 9/4 Glove tranks, with or without the usual accompanying pieces. 1913T. O. Fardon Let. to Editor, Two tranks, 2 thumbs, and 6 fourchettes are required to make a pair of gloves.
▪ II. trank2|træŋk|
Also tranq.
Slang abbrev. of tranquillizer.
1967Wentworth & Flexner's Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 708/2 Trank,..a tranquilizer, a pill or capsule containing a tranquilizer. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 196 As late as four fifteen, mother flaked out: either the party had aggravated her sense of intraspecific alienation, or her tranqs, all day neutralized by adrenalin, had hit her together in one clammy punch. 1976B. Bova Multiple Man xvii. 196 ‘Y'all got a buzzful of trank in yew, boy.’.. I [was] feeling like my head was numb with Novocain. 1980A. Skinner Mind's Eye iv. 34 We'll have to go back to slipping tranks into his coffee.
Hence tranked |træŋkt| a., drugged by tranquillizers.
1972M. Crichton Terminal Man iv. i. 135 He was tranked out of his skull with thorazine. 1974Observer 17 Mar. 34/7 Lulling drugs are prescribed; tots shamble eerily about, tranked. |