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How to pronounce “hank”
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Pronunciation guide for hank
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hank with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Poetry and Music That Reaches Across the Digital Void
with an assist from science communicator Hank Green,
- Definition summary
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce hank
Poetry and Music That Reaches Across the Digital Void

with an assist from science communicator Hank Green,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hank”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
- (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- (obsolete) Hold; influence.
- (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To form into hanks.
- (transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
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