Definition of lank

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Lank (superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

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Blank :: Blank (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.
Clank :: Clank (v. i.) To sound with a clank.
Setbolt :: Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together..
Mackinaw :: Mackinaw () A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Plancher :: Plancher (n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..
Ceiling :: Ceiling (v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.
Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
Rubican :: Rubican (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses..
Clankless :: Clankless (a.) Without a clank.
Salt :: Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber..
Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..
Flankering :: Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flanke.
Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..
Plancher :: Plancher (v. t.) To form of planks.
Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..
Interleaf :: Interleaf (n.) A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book..
Apron :: Apron (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut..
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