Coils or loops of rope, string, yarn, or thread; thick lengths of something wound together.
From Old Norse 'hankr' (loop, coil). The word entered English around 1400s and has maintained the meaning of wound or coiled materials throughout its history.
Before modern measurement, rope and yarn were sold in standardized hanks of specific lengths—a hank of yarn traditionally contained exactly 560 yards!
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