Definitions for lank

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Spelling: [langk]
IPA: /læŋk/

Lank is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in lank (akln).

Definitions for lank

adjective

  1. (of plants) unduly long and slender:
  2. (of hair) straight and limp; without spring or curl.
  3. lean; gaunt; thin.

Origin of lank

before 1000; Middle English lanc, Old English hlanc; akin to Old High German hlanca loin, side. Cf. flank

Examples for lank

Perhaps the good Samaritan was lean and lank, and found it hard to live.

The colonel looked at O'Malley's lank and bony frame and smiled.

The trapper slapped his lank, leather-clad thigh in high approval.

He was a lank, bony, yellow-faced man, with big intense eyes.

Sim cowered in a corner of the box, with his lank fingers in his long hair.

A little taller than Piang, was Sicto, lean and lank of limb.

Presently in came a tall woman, lank, crooked, with only one eye.

He was tall and he was lank and he was honest to his last bristling hair.

George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.

Professor Scudmore waved a long, lank hand at the little man.

Word Value for lank
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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