hank

Plural: hanks

Noun

• a coil of rope or wool or yarn
• A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
• A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
• Doubt, difficulty.
• Mess, tangle.
• A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
• Hold; influence.
• 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

Verb Forms: hanked, hanking, hanks

• To secure a sail to a stay with metal rings.
• To form into hanks.
• To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

Examples

• He tried to HANK his strategy to the board, but the letters wouldn’t cooperate.

Anagrams of hank