HANK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coil of rope or wool or yarn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hank" is a kind of...):

coil; helix; spiral; volute; whorl (a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hank"):

skein (coils of worsted yarn)

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