Hank

Bob and Hank are duking it out in the alley behind the bar.

Hank wrote poetry.

Roberta Gambarini and Hank Jones first performed together at the 2001 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Their perfect musical pairing led to concert tours around the world, and eventually into the studio to record an album Gambarini described as "a dream come true."

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 […]

[…] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.

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.

He found a hank of clothesline on a counter.

Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]

where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye