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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hank .
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Examples
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She was out the hatch before she realized that he had hanked hard to the left.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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The tresses of Helen, that goddess of Greece have hanked round your heart like a doll of desire
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The luff of the jib will usually be hanked with small brass or plastic snip fittings on the jib onto the headstay and the jib sheets will be attached to the clew of the jib with bowline knots.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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The luff of the jib will usually be hanked with small brass or plastic snip fittings on the jib onto the headstay and the jib sheets will be attached to the clew of the jib with bowline knots.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Hannah Worth walked home, laden like a beast of burden, with an enormous bag of hanked yarn on her back.
Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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He cast better, he hanked oftener, and he disentangled more easily than he had done at an earlier period of the day.
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Once already the old gentleman had hanked on the bank
The Eagle Cliff 1859
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December (_Hogmanay_), all household work was stopped, rock emptied, yarn reeled and _hanked_, and wheel and reel put into an outhouse.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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My right arm still hurts from the steering wheel hanked it. on 3 / 6 / 09 that's a bummer. what a jerk for doing a hit and run. glad you didn't get hurt any worse than you did.
unknown title 2009
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He hanked "Allah for blessing my entire family" and named each of his brothers and sisters.
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