See lank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames\nWith bisson rheum; a clout upon that head\nWhere late the diadem stood, and for a robe,\nAbout her lank and all o’erteemed loins,\nA blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;",
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"text": "The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.",
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"3": "hlanc"
},
"expansion": "Old English hlanc",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*hlank"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hlank",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hlankaz",
"t": "lank, thin"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“lank, thin”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kleng-",
"t": "to bend, turn, wind, twist"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind, twist”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "lenken",
"t": "to turn"
},
"expansion": "German lenken (“to turn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "hlanca",
"t": "hip, side, flank"
},
"expansion": "Old High German hlanca (“hip, side, flank”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "link"
},
"expansion": "English link",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "of a chain"
},
"expansion": "(of a chain)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English lank, from Old English hlanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlank, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“lank, thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind, twist”); compare German lenken (“to turn”), Gelenk (“joint”), Old High German hlanca (“hip, side, flank”), and English link (of a chain).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lanks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lanking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lanked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "lanked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lank (third-person singular simple present lanks, present participle lanking, simple past and past participle lanked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:",
"text": "[…] on the Alps\nIt is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,\nWhich some did die to look on: and all this—\nIt wounds thine honour that I speak it now—\nWas borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek\nSo much as lank’d not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become lank."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, intransitive) To become lank."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/læŋk/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lank.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lank.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lank.wav.mp3",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋk"
}
],
"word": "lank"
}
Download raw JSONL data for lank meaning in English (16.7kB)
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