Thesaurus results for HANK

hank

noun

as in coil

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Recent Examples of hank Kim lets out a sob and a hank of Natalie’s hair clings to her tears. —

Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025 There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach. —

Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope. —

Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021 If a breeze is blowing, the air fills with the clamoring of jib hanks. —

Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms. —

Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018 One photograph from the era shows a woman standing in a village as two men forcibly restrain her wrists; a third man grabs a hank of her blonde hair, his scissors poised to hack it away. —

Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018 The next morning, the police and Victoria’s parents found articles of the girl’s clothing and a bloody hank of hair on a road near a sand pit in Mahwah. —

David Stout, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017 The Shaker-style peg rack could hold hanks of yarn. —

Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2012

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Attached to the back of each mirror are about 700 tiny magnets that are pushed and pulled by electromagnetic coils to enable the mirrors to change their shape thousands of times per second to remove the atmospheric jitter.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The factory coils are in many cases better than some aftermarket parts.

— John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026