hank
汉克
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noun
a thick hank of her blonde hair
a coil or skein of yarn, hair, rope, or other material.
This enables the dyer to create hanks of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking.
a measurement of the length per unit mass of cloth or yarn, which varies according to the type being measured. For example, a hank is equal to 840 yards for cotton yarn and 560 yards for worsted.
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We can also reduce to total cost of the your roller furling package by taking your 'hank' on sails in trade.
Harry flung the 'hank' at the commuter, the larger quantity of the line making a ‘plunk’ as it hit LEAF WINE's coachroof.
Place the 'hank' on the eyelet location, facing you on the selected side of the sail.
Jenny's dark hair had been brushed out and tied with ribbon and it lay in a soft 'hank' across her shoulder.
Foam padded luffs etc help but its still not tight like a 'hank' on sail.
a thick 'hank' of her blonde hair
I figured better a little wet on me than a lot of wet all inside the house, so I grabbed the ladder and took a 'hank' of cord and dodged out back up the garden wall onto the roof.
She picked up a 'hank' of noodles with her chopsticks.
All around are souvenir stands selling anything from T-shirts and badges through to ‘Hog Hair’ - a kind of biker Jimmy Wig with a 'hank' of human hair attached to a bandana - and leather, leather and yet more leather.
I so often read about people loving variegated yarns on the 'hank' , but hating it, when it's knitted up.
Either version is good savored alone or dipped into one of the little pitchers of warm sauce that come with each order - or snugged into a 'hank' of floppy white bread and consumed with a hit of sweet-sour sauce and crisp white onion.
Suki and colleagues have taken the more conservative position that physical forces merely dissect the tissue as if it were a 'hank' of rope under tension (their analogy).
The 'hank' has a generally cylindrical body member with a longitudinal channel therethrough large enough to accommodate and slide on a stay on which it is adapted to be mounted.
She smiled and kissed the Coyote; he'd been fun, but now he was an exhausted 'hank' of fur, panting hard in the back of the booth.
a thick 'hank' of her blonde hair
A 'hank' is provided for rapidly attaching a sail to a stay.
A woman can be seen through a doorway; she is seated and feeding a 'hank' of yarn to someone out of sight.
Cyril, don't let them leave without a couple 'hanks' of wool as well, eh?
Seems her feet got dirty at the friends house a dozen times before I ripped 'hanks' of hair from my head and tossed them into the air.
Earlier European instruments, from the 16th century onwards, had bars laid on 'hanks' of straw.
Enthused by Mysorean strands, Bangalore's Smitha Cariappa visually interpreted the local silk industry, transformed into hut-like spaces embellished by rangoli, 'hanks' of silk, and symbolic silkworm evolution.
I left the Studio with some nice stuff, pictured here. 2 hanks of the lovely Rio de la Plata (the other Uruguayan yarn), 2 'hanks' of Ironstone mohair, and 1 hank of Ironstone cotton tape.
There was a lot of cutting seams and scrap thread and yarn, but I managed to get a few small 'hanks' out of the left side panel of the cardigan.
He pushed 'hanks' of auburn back out of his eyes and held the spiral-linked booklet out towards me.
This enables the dyer to create 'hanks' of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking.
In Thao Van's other basket are the accessories, piles of chopped coriander, mint and spring onion; huge 'hanks' of fresh rice noodles, white as marble.
I would return to feed you black 'hanks' of kelp from each fist.
But most of these are continental in flavour, with 'hanks' of Parma ham hanging from the ceiling and boxes of Pannatone piled high.
They buy the cotton from the Sangham office for Rs.25 a kg and can get 13-15 'hanks' if the cotton is good.
Snarled 'hanks' of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.
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