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Hank

noun

A coil of rope or wool or yarn.

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"Hank" Quotes from Famous Books

... exact moment a new girl, but tired and moist, appeared, took a hank of white threads from a dressing-table, and tied that separate lock firmly. This, Linda counted, was repeated fifteen times; and when it was accomplished she was unable to repress a nervous laughter. Really, her mother looked too queer for words: the long rigid projections ...

— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... people. One winter the Methodists held revival meetings for two months in the schoolhouse, and for nearly a year after it was considered very worldly to sing anything but hymns. The other extreme was reached one fall when Hank Winters came home for a visit from the States, and set all the ...

— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith

... but I think it was Hank. If I've got the dope right, those other two fellows you mention are not near ...

— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield

... won't, my lad. But it do seem jolly and comf'table like. I feel as if I could sit down and whistle for hours. Now then, don't you get that line tangled. I've laid it all in a hank ready to run out; and don't ram them hooks in your fingers, because they're hard to cut out. Now, you carry them and the shell o' bait and I'll ...

— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn

... rear of the station an aged stage driver sat nodding on his turnout. The stage coach was an "old timer," and had carried many a merry party of sightseers through the sandy roads of Oceanport and Sunset Beach, while Hank, the driver, called out all spots of interest along the way. And Hank had a ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope

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