Usually means: Coil or loop of yarn.
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  1. hank: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hank: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hank: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hank, Hank, hank: Wordnik
  7. Hank, hank: Wiktionary
  8. hank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hank: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hank, hank: Dictionary.com
  12. hank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Hank (Werkendam), Hank (album), Hank (disambiguation), Hank (dog), Hank (textile), Hank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hank: Rhymezone
  17. Hank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Hank: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. hank: Free Dictionary
  21. hank: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
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  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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  1. hank, hank, hank, hank, hank, hank, hank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hank: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Hank: Sports Definitions

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noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Henry.
noun:  (archaic) A diminutive of the given name Hankin (a medieval form of John).
noun:  A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
noun:  (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
noun:  (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
noun:  (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
noun:  A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
noun:  (obsolete) Hold; influence.
noun:  (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb:  (transitive) To form into hanks.
verb:  (transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

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