metal hooks used to secure a sail to a stay; to hank on a sail is to hook it on a stay using the hanks one of the fittings that attaches the luff of a headsail and a staysail to a stay.

Clip or snap fittings sewn into the luff of the jib for attaching the sail to the stay.

A hank was a length of flax thread which had been spun into yarn. 120 revolutions of the spinning wheel produced 300 yards of yarn and this was called a cut. Twelve cuts made a hank. Hanks of yarn were boiled in soapy water before being taken to market for sale. Four hanks were known as a spangle. | list | close this window

Another essentially interchangeable term with the same meaning as Bundles, applying to hog and sheep casings.

United States film actor (born in 1956)