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hank

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In the textile industry , a hank refers to a unit of yarn or twine that is in a coiled form. This is often the best form for use with hand looms , compared to the cone form needed for power looms. Hanks come in varying lengths depending on the type of material. ...

Usage examples of hank.

Hanks cites the history of a case of antepartum desquamation of the skin in a living fetus.

Hank and Arv, who had entered the power room while Tom was talking, looked bleak at the prospect.

Tom, Bud, Arv, and Hank made a careful examination of the crippled craft.

Right after supper Tom and Bud, with the assistance of Arv and Hank, set to work on the damaged computer.

It held Bollo, beneath the arms, and its head, from which a hank of gauzy hair spun out, was bowed upon his chest.

Hank had worked on the gear for the broncs and bulls, rewired the lights, repaired the PA system, found a barrel for the rodeo clown, tied the numbered collars on the team penning cattle and, finally, got into his chaps for the bull riding.

Hank began his account carefully, trying very hard to sound like a sane and responsible individual as he related the major points: the mania Brummel seemed to have for getting rid of him, the church division, the gossip, the angry church board, the slogan painted on his house, and then the spiritual wrestling match he had gone through last night.

The channels let him get deep into hard need before they let him take transfer from Hank.

Jimmy Norton, assigned to help Zeth, led up a pack horse and began unloading medical supplies as Hank and Uel set up the standard to mark the location of the channels for the Gens.

Tom Brown agreed to accompany the Clackamas County investigators into the wilderness to show them where the bodies of Hank and the dog lay.

And no one was feeling the pressure more strongly than the cochairman of Taurus, Hank Bindle.

Hank decided on a number of fences, schooling Orion first over one or two and then adding on more with each attempt.

Cassie cleared the last three fences, Hank heard the excited gasps of Melissa, the twins, and Mrs.

Her mother arrived then with Hank in tow, the dark-haired man glowering at Sarah as if this was all her fault.

Phil and Dotty Frost, Walter and Linda Tuffy, Hank and June Staples, the Mangums, the Stenzels, or the Clearwaters, the response was always the same.