Associations to the word «Lank»
Adjective
Wiktionary
LANK, adjective. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
LANK, adjective. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
LANK, adjective. (obsolete) languid; drooping.
LANK, verb. (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
LANK SLEEVE, noun. The empty sleeve to an one-armed man.
LANK SLEEVES, noun. Plural of lank sleeve
Dictionary definition
LANK, adjective. Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair".
LANK, adjective. Long and lean.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.