Bob and Hank are duking it out in the alley behind the bar.
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Hank
//hæŋk//
Synonyms for "hank" (25 found)
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Translations
12 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- бухта noun (nautical: ring or shackle to secure staysail)
- чиле noun (coil or loop)
- намотавам verb (To form into hanks)
Czech
1 entries- přadeno noun (coil or loop)
Finnish
4 entries- kieppi noun (coil or loop)
- litsa noun (nautical: ring or shackle to secure staysail)
- ratsastaja noun (nautical: ring or shackle to secure staysail)
- vyyhti noun (coil or loop)
Māori
3 entries- kōrino noun (coil or loop)
- pōkai noun (coil or loop)
- pōkaimiro noun (coil or loop)
Russian
1 entries- мото́к noun (coil or loop)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Hank wrote poetry.
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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."
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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 […]
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