Definition of "hank" []

• A coil or loop. (noun)
• Nautical A ring on a stay attached to the head of a jib or staysail. (noun)
• A looped bundle, as of yarn. (noun)

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• "Well I sure as heck dont need "hank" with me in a bar."
• "My throat was sore and swollen for a day or two, and I felt so sorry for myself at times that I laughed to think how I must have looked: sitting on a stone, drinking a pan of tea without trimmings, that had got cold, and eating a shapeless lump of brown bread; my one "hank" drawn around my neck, serving as hank and bandage alternately."
• "We stood on the brink of a wall, over which the stream at our side fell in a "hank" of divided cataracts."