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Definition of Chank
1. n. The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank shell.
Definition of Chank
1. Noun. (context: East India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially ''Turbinella pyrum''. ¹
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Definition of Chank
1. a type of shell [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chank
Literary usage of Chank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"Besides being the type of its genus, the Pear Turbinella is the chank or Shankh,
... The images of the god Vishnu always carry a chank shell in one hand. ..."
2. Poems on Various Subjects by Jane Roseboom (1871)
"It went,—Chink chank, chink chank chinky, chank chink, chink chank chink, chank
chinky, chank chink. And as I leaf o'er memory's will And read anew its ..."
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