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Yes. The word lank is a Scrabble US word. The word lank is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word lank is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

LANK,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AN,KA,LA,NA,

You can make 6 words from lank according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lank

lank alnk lnak nlak anlk nalk lakn alkn lkan klan akln kaln lnka nlka lkna klna nkla knla ankl nakl aknl kanl nkal knal

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Definitions and meaning of lank

lank

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /læŋk/
  • Rhymes: -æŋk

Adjective

lank (comparative lanker, superlative lankest)

  1. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
    • 1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume III, p. 226,[1]
      […] who would not chuse […] to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain […] ?
    • 1724-5, Jonathan Swift, “A Receipt. To Restore Stella’s Youth” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, 1841, Volume 1, p. 687,[2]
      Meagre and lank with fasting grown,
      And nothing left but skin and bone;
  2. (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
    • 1659, Samuel Cradock, Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation, London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495,[3]
      We should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver.
  3. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
    • 1695, John Stevens (translator), The Portugues Asia; or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues, by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, London: C. Brome, Chapter 10, p. 291,[4]
      The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]
  4. (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.

Synonyms

  • (slender): lithe, svelte, willowy; see also Thesaurus:slender
  • (meagre): insufficient, scarce, sparse; see also Thesaurus:inadequate
  • (of hair):
  • (languid): lax, loose, nutant

Derived terms

  • lankness
  • lanky

Translations

Verb

lank (third-person singular simple present lanks, present participle lanking, simple past and past participle lanked)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To become lank.

References

“lank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Klan, klan, lkna

Afrikaans

Etymology

From a dialectal pronunciation of Dutch lang, from Middle Dutch lanc, from Proto-Germanic *langaz. Compare jonk.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lank (attributive lang, comparative langer, superlative langste)

  1. long
  2. tall

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • lang (more recent variant, now widespread)

Etymology

From Old High German lang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laŋk/

Adjective

lank (masculine lange, feminine lang, comparative länger, superlative et längste)

  1. (most dialects) long

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From lan +‎ -k.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlaŋk]

Noun

lank m inan

  1. Diminutive of lan

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “lank”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “lank”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Plautdietsch

Adjective

lank

  1. long (in physical measure), tall

Traveller Norwegian

Noun

lank

  1. coffee

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lanc, from Old Dutch *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

Adjective

lank

  1. long

Inflection

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