hankn.
/haŋk/, U.S. /hæŋk/ 1. A circular coil or loop of anything flexible.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > of something flexible
hank1483
1483 Cath. Angl. 173/2 An Hank.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. v. [iv.] 34 As he [Laocoon] etlis thair hankis to have rent, And with his handis thame away have draw.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation iv. 264 Tie them fast with the two ends of the Silk, that they may hang in so many Hanks.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 107 An Hank is a slipping made up into a knot.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 196 The hair..is usually twisted into many little ringlets or hanks.
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 119 The stems..were coiled in great hanks round the trawl-beam.
2. A skein or coil of thread, yarn, etc.; a definite length of yarn or thread in a coil. A hank of cotton yarn contains 840 yards; of worsted yarn 560 yards. to make a ravelled hank, to entangle a skein hence figurative ‘to put anything into confusion’ (Brockett).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > skein or hank
hasp1390
skeinc1440
slipping1541
hank1575
sling1644
rap1776
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 29v Ane Reill..To reill thair hankis..of reid gold wyir.
1633 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 328 For sixe hanckes and 3 cutts of yarne.
1776–7 Act 17 Geo. III c. 11 §11 Every several hank of such worsted yarn shall..contain seven raps or leas.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 41 Knotting my hanks of gut.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 102 In cotton yarns, the rule of numbering is very simple, being the number of hanks, each eight hundred and forty yards long, requisite to form one pound in weight. Thus No. 40, written 40's., denotes yarns of which forty hanks weigh one pound.
1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 534/2 The ceilings [were] hung with hanks of blue yarn.
1888 Cent. Mag. 36 768/2 These little silken ‘hanks’ were sometimes..prettily colored.
1957 Vogue Knitting Bk. L. 70/2 (advt.) 3, 4 & 2-ply Super Botany Wool. oz. hanks 1/5.
1966 Which? Feb. 53/2 Most yarns are sold in balls nowadays; we tested only nine still sold in the hank.
3.
a. A loop of string, wire, or the like, used to fasten things together, or to hang a thing up by; spec. in rural use, A bight of rope or a withy used as the fastening of a gate or hurdle.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > loop > of rope, chain, or cloth
hank1388
linkc1450
boughta1475
eye1584
bight1622
loop1718
ropemaker's eye1854
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > loop or noose > for fastening together or hanging
hank1388
hankinga1642
1388–9 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 57 j hank pro cemetar'.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 9 If his ryder start him suddainly, or holde his hankes too straite.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 18 Yow are to make your hankes 3 quarters of a yarde in length and to putte to everie severall barre yow sende to field a severall hanke.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 333 Hank, a with, or rope, for fastening a gate.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 78 Hank, a rope-loop for fastening a gate.
b. Nautical. A hoop or ring of rope, wood, or iron, fixed upon the stays, to seize the luff of the fore-and-aft sails, and to confine the staysails thereto, at different distances (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard > hoop to bend sail to stay
hank1711
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 134 Fore-sheet, Main-sheet, Hanks, Swifter.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Anneaux d'étai, the hanks of a stay-sail.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 88 Reef-hanks, short pieces of log-line, or other small line, sewed at certain distances on the reefs of boom-sails.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxv. 132 A rattling of hanks announce that the flying-jib has come in.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 450/1 Then comes a foresail, which is fitted with hanks to the fore-stay.
c. hank for hank: see quots.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > use of wind in sailing [phrase] > (close) to the wind > going to windward together
luff for luff1624
hank for hank1760
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ii. xv. 267 Able to go, hank for hank with any thing that swims the sea.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 251* Hank-for-hank, when two ships tack and make a progress to windward together.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hank for hank.
4. figurative.
a. A restraining or curbing hold; a power of check or restraint: esp. in to have a hank on or over any one. Now rare or dialect.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun] > means of restraint or restraining force
bridleeOE
bridea1425
restraint1523
aweband1531
bit1546
retentive1580
control1594
curb1613
hank1613
constriction1650
retinue1651
check1661
spigot1780
brake1875
way-chain1884
tab1889
inhibitor1902
check-cord1908
iron maiden1912
inhibition1932
1613 T. Potts Wonderfull Discov. Witches sig. P4 The said Witches..had then in hanck a child of Michael Hartleys.
1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer ii. ii. 18 'Twill give me such a hank upon her Pride.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. xxi. 172 So that their landlords might have them [the tenants] upon the hank.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 201 Humphry had this double hank upon her inclinations.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) To keep a good hank upon your horse, is to have a good hold of the reins.
1851 T. De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 408/2 He..had defied all the powers of Chancery..to get..a hawk over him.
b. Connection, entanglement; no hanks with, no relations with, nothing to do with. dialect.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > no relation [phrase]
no hanks with1888
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Hanks, connection or dealings with—used only with a negative construction..I have heard people warned..‘not to have no hanks’ with a certain horse, or with an undesirable bargain.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. (at cited word) ‘I won't ha' no hank wi' un’, will have nothing at all to do with him.
c. Wrestling. In the Cumberland and Westmorland style, a throw made by putting the left leg between the legs of an opponent, catching his left leg, and leaning or pulling backwards. Also back-hank.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
swengOE
turn?c1225
castc1400
trip1412
fall?a1425
foil1553
collar1581
lock1598
faulx1602
fore-hip1602
forward1602
inturn1602
mare1602
hug1617
disembracement1663
buttock1688
throw1698
back-lock1713
cross-buttock1713
flying horse1713
in holds1713
buttocker1823
chip1823
dogfall1823
cross-buttocker1827
hitch1834
bear hug1837
backfall1838
stop1840
armlock1841
side hug1842
click1846
catch-hold1849
back-breaker1867
back-click1867
snap1868
hank1870
nelson1873
headlock1876
chokehold1886
stranglehold1886
hip lock1888
heave1889
strangle1890
pinfall1894
strangler's grip1895
underhold1895
hammer-lock1897
scissor hold1897
body slam1899
scissors hold1899
armbar1901
body scissors1903
scissors grip1904
waist-hold1904
neck hold1905
scissors1909
hipe1914
oshi1940
oshi-dashi1940
oshi-taoshi1940
pindown1948
lift1958
whip1958
Boston crab1961
grapevine1968
powerbomb1990
1870 W. Armstrong Wrestliana 44 Robinson lifted him up like a cat lifting a mouse, when, Plaskett immediately put in the hank.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 690/2 Each man tries to throw his adversary by using the ‘buttock’,..the ‘crossbuttock’,..or the ‘back-hank’.
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 547/2 The hank, when manipulated by an expert wrestler, becomes one of the hardest and most dangerous falls of all.
5. The handle of a jug or pot. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > handle
pot eara1425
kilp1425
hankc1530
pot-lug1855
c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 318 The mending of twoo Pottile Pottis..the gilding and mending the hancs lyddes and saudering them in sartaigne places.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hank, a handle. Somerset.
6. A baiting of an animal.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > [noun]
baitingc1300
baitc1400
beast-baiting1606
lugging1614
hank1785
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) A Smithfield hank, an ox rendered furious by over driving and barbarous treatment.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 24 To appear at a mill, a hanck, or a dog-fight.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 180 Hank, a bull-bait, or bullock-hunt.
1881 Diprose's Annual 64/2 The needful preparations for these Tiger Hanks.
1881 Diprose's Annual 66/2 Thus ended my first, though..not my last tiger hank.
7. A propensity; an evil habit. dialect.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > a tendency
spirita1425
inclination1526
bias?1571
vein1585
habitude1603
ply1605
nitency1662
result1663
tend1663
penchant1673
nisus1699
hank1721
squint1736
patent1836
subjectivism1845
lurch1854
biasness1872
tilt1975
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > bad or evil
untuhtlec1230
cacoethes1603
hank1878
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Hank, a Habit, Custom or Propensity of Mind.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hank, a habit.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘Shoe's gitten a sad hank o' runnin out of neets.’
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Hank, an evil habit.
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hankv.
/haŋk/, U.S. /hæŋk/ 1. figurative.1357 Lay Folks Catech. 456 Dedli synnes..gastely sla ilk mannes saule, That er hanked [Lamb. MS. bound] in al or in any of tham.1744 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) III. 201 The heart of the bride being thus hanked or catched with the glory of the Bridegroom.
a. transitive. To fasten by a loop or noose; to entangle; to catch by any loop-like part. Now dialect.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > fasten with a loop or noose
hank1357
hitch1627
loop1837
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12912 Beoð þine feðer-heomen ihaneked mid golden.]
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16044 Ful hard þai did him hank [Vesp. hanc; Fairf. hanke], And bunden broght him forth als thef.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1522 in Poems (1981) 61 The lyoun fled, and..Fell in the net and hankit fute and heid.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iii. 10 At the schoyr wndir a gresy bank, Thair nauy can thai ankir fast and hank.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 43 Hee shall holde [the reynes] fast betweene his fore-finger and his thumbe, and then hanke them about his hande twice.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma liii. 242 Others hank their horses on to the crook at the door.
1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 39 There he hung, hanket by the waistband o' his breeks.
b. Wrestling. To throw (an opponent) by means of the hank (see hank n. 4c).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > wrestle with [verb (transitive)] > manoeuvres
casta1300
hurl1613
hip1675
back-clamp1713
buttock1823
fling1825
hipe1835
cross-buttock1878
pin1879
hank1881
hammer-lock1905
scissor1907
body slam1932
powerbomb1993
1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 314 The next fall resulted in favour of Pooley, who hanked his adversary.
1894 Carlisle Patriot 13 July 7/4 (Cumbld. Gloss. 1899) J— was hanked, S— trying the inside click.
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c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 10 The kyng pardoneth the thy drawyng and hankyng, but thyn hed shalle be smyte of.
3. intransitive. To hang or remain fastened; to ‘catch.’In quot. 1547 probably a misprint.
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1547 J. Hooper Declar. Christe (Zurich) viii. Hij The same bodye that hankyd upon the crose.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. I4v You should haue hankt o' th' bridle, Sir, i'faith.
1898 N.E.D. at Hank Mod. Sc. Take care that your line does not hank on the bushes.
4. transitive. To make up (thread) in hanks.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > wind > in specific way
reelc1400
conglomerate1623
spool1623
sleavea1628
agglomerate1658
skein1775
hank1818
pirn1818
lease1884
cross-reel1890
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Hank, to form into hanks. Used in the north of England.
1825 in J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words
5. To bait: cf. hanker n.1 slang.
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1823 [implied in: P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Bull Hankers, men who delight in the sport of bull-hanking; that is, bull-baiting, or bullock-hunting. (at hanker n.1)].
1893 in J. S. Farmer Slang
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)]
thirstc893
forlongc1175
longc1225
alonga1393
greena1400
suspirec1450
earnc1460
to think long?1461
sigh1549
groanc1560
hank1589
twitter1616
linger1630
hanker1642
to hang a nose1655
hangc1672
yammer1705
yen1919
1589 C. Ockland in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 71 Where I hanked after plentie I have runne upon scarcetie.
1716 Cuckoo in Jacobite Songs (1871) 23 He'll fley away the wild birds that hank about the throne.
Derivatives
hanking n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > loop or noose > for fastening together or hanging
hank1388
hankinga1642
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into skein or hank
hanking1820
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 18 The 8th thinge belonge to barres is folde-hankes or ‘hankings’, as they call them, which is as thicke againe as plough-stringe, beinge a loose kinde of two plette.
1820 J. Cleland Rise & Progress Glasgow 45 The hanking of handspun yarn.
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v.1357- get a person's nanny
- get a person's nanny-goat
- get a person's nannygoat
- get a person's nose open
- get a person's number
- get a person's shirt out
- get a point
- get a rat
- get a result
- get a results
- get a riding
- get a rise
- get a rocket
- get a room
- get a run for one's money
- get a rush
- get a rustle on
- get a settling
- get a shift on
- get a snitch on
- get a soaker
- get a spark up
- get a stand
- get a stomach
- get a thing on his etc feet