different between hank vs clutter

English

Etymology

From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse h?nk, hank; akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Noun

hank (plural hanks)

1. A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
2. (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
3. (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
4. (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
5. A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
6. (obsolete) Hold; influence.
   • 1660, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam

     When the devil hath got such a hank over him.

7. (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

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Verb

hank (third-person singular simple present hanks, present participle hanking, simple past and past participle hanked)

1. (transitive) To form into hanks.
2. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

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Anagrams

• Kahn, Khan, Nakh, ankh, khan

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse h?nk

Noun

hank f or m (definite singular hanka or hanken, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)

1. a handle (e.g. on a cup)

References

• “hank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hanke

Etymology

From Old Norse hanki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??k/

Noun

hank m (definite singular hanken, indefinite plural hankar, definite plural hankane)
hank f (definite singular hanka, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)

1. a handle (e.g. on a cup)

References

• “hank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kl?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kl?t?/, [?kl???]
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

clutter (countable and uncountable, plural clutters)

1. (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
2. (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
3. (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
   • 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction

     Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.

4. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
   • October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift

     I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison

   • 1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works (volume 1, page 33)

     It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once […]

Derived terms

• surface clutter
• volume clutter

Translations

Verb

clutter (third-person singular simple present clutters, present participle cluttering, simple past and past participle cluttered)

1. To fill something with clutter.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

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3. To make a confused noise; to bustle.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose

     It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.

4. To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

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