2. A rope or withe for fastening a gate. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hold; influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the devil hath got such a hank over him. Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To form into hanks. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To linger in expectation or with desire. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Illegal or unethical behavior, usually surreptitious; as, the boss got suspicious when profits seemed lower than expected, and hired an investigator to see if any hankey-pankey was going on. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

3. Extramarital sexual relations, especially adultery. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically: (a) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. (b) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. See Illustr. of Anchor. (c) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. (d) A loop forming an eye to a button. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Founding) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) The body of a type. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. pl. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shank painter (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. --
To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you, ” quod she. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thank thee for thine honest care. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss,
And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. Luke vi. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

His thanks,
Her thanks, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Full sooth is said that love ne lordship,
Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] --
In thank, with thanks or thankfulness. [ Obs. ] --
Thank offering, an offering made as an expression of thanks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass
That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well
That washes what it shows. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. c. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

That she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the night allowed. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Thank"less*ly adv. -- Thank"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor. [ 1913 Webster ]

For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. ii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unthank come on his head that bound him so. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]