Hanks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HANKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• HANK, to catch, as on a loop
NOUN:
• a coil or skein of wool, hair, or other material
• a measurement of the length per unit mass of cloth or yarn, which varies according to the type being measured. For example it is equal to 840 yards for cotton yarn and 560 yards for worsted.
• a ring for securing a staysail to the stay.
• United States film actor (born in 1956)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten a sail

Words related to HANKS

hank11 hanked14 hanking15

Words that contain HANKS

chanks15 shanks13 thanks13 bethanks17 outthanks16 redshanks17 foreshanks20 hindshanks21 pickthanks25 greenshanks19 scrimshanks22 sheepshanks23 skrimshanks24 thanksgiver22 thanksgivers23 thanksgiving24 spindleshanks23 thanksgivings25

How to use HANKS in a sentence

• The mayor, whose name was Jasper Hanks, mentioned a prize of five hundred dollars for an endurance flight as a special inducement.
• Lincoln went on a visit to Kentucky, leaving his two children and their cousin, Dennis Hanks, at home to care for the house and the farm.
• With the young lad, Dennis Hanks, there were now six children in the family.
• Here John Hanks had the logs already cut for their new home, and Lincoln, Dennis Hanks, and Hall soon had a cabin erected.
• Most of his work was done in company with John Hanks.
• Herndon gives John Hanks as his authority for this statement.
• Lincoln himself, Hanks did not go on to New Orleans, but having a family and being likely to be detained from home longer than at first expected, turned back at St.
• PAULLIN, ETHEL PARSONS, executor of the Estate of Emily Grace Hanks.
• William Hanks, written upon a table of stone, which he discovered at Stratonice, now called Eskihissar in Asia Minor.
• The hanks of fibre are dropped from the second table onto a horizontal wooden bar, where they are rapidly sorted over by a man who throws inferior and spotted bunches to one side.
• The schooner was gone, that was all, and Captain Sam Hanks and his crew were stranded upon the coast of Labrador.
• Finally a settlement was arranged with Captain Hanks.
• It was thirty miles to the nearest doctor, and several persons died, among them Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of young Abraham.
• Johnston, to whom she was married about the time Lincoln married Nancy Hanks, had died, leaving her with three children.
• Well, the truth is, John Hanks and I did make rails in the Sagamon Bottom.
• He then went up to his room and thrust the hanks, unobserved, one by one among the straw which, covered by an army blanket, constituted his bed.
• The hanks are treated for about twenty minutes in the liquor, and are then wrung out, drained, and again treated in new scouring liquor for the same length of time.
• The hanks are hung between each pair of rollers, and can be stretched tightly as may be required.
• There is also an arrangement by means of which the reels can be lifted bodily in and out of the dye-vat for the purpose of taking on and off the hanks of yarn.
• The reels are lifted out and the hanks removed when the machine is ready for another lot of yarn.
• The hanks of yarn are hung on rods of a special construction designed to open them out in a manner as nearly approaching hand work as is possible.
• The lifting arrangement is at one end of the vat, the hanks are hung on the rods and placed in the vat.
• One machine consists of a pair of discs fitted on an axle, these discs carry strong hooks on which the hanks are placed.
• Guides keep the hanks of yarn separate and prevent any entanglement one with another.
• VI But in the vestry after the service he met enemies, in the shape and flesh of the chapel-steward and the circuit-steward, Mr Brett and Mr Hanks respectively.
• Hanks, and explain just how it had been done in the public policy.
• The youngest son, Thomas, learned the trade of a carpenter, and in 1806 married Nancy Hanks, a niece of the man with whom he learned his trade.
• When the reel has been filled with, say, twenty-four 6-cut hanks, there will evidently be 3 spyndles of yarn on the reel.
• Each bundle contains a number of complete hanks, and it is unusual to split a hank for the purpose of maintaining an absolutely standard weight bundle.
• Hanks, the first pastor, was ordained March 20, 1840, and dismissed February 3, 1853.
• Hank’s heart in significance of his vassalage to the fair sex.
• Lenk used cotton in the form of yarn, made up into hanks, which he first washed in a solution of potash, and then with water, and after drying dipped them in the acids.

Similar words containing HANK without suffix s

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