hank – English noun declension

English noun forms of hank

Noun: hank
Singularhank
Pluralhanks

Sample Sentences

  • 1681, E.R., The Experienced Farrier, London, p. 307,
  • […] the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose, is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread, and hang it cross a stick, and set one end of it on fire […] and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils […]
  • Cotton twist is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […] [1796, Thomas Pennant, “History of Holywell Parish,”, in The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, London: B. and J. White, page 217:]
  • […] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton. [1859, George Eliot, chapter 9, in Adam Bede, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 181:]
  • The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself. [1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 14, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 131:]
  • He found a hank of clothesline on a counter. [1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 9, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:]
  • Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […] [1636 July (date delivered), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Aulam.] Sermon IV. Beuvoyr, July 1636”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 43, page 59:]

Etymology

From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century. See: Middle English Nouns 'hank', Old English Nouns 'hangian'.

Verbs referencing "hank"

Icelandic Nouns hönk.