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HANK
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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)