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Definition of Lanker
1. lank [adj] - See also: lank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanker
Literary usage of Lanker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Virgil, by Vicars, \KK. tl'lanker. Au entrenchment protecting the flank of a
position. .... lanker ..."
2. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the by Roald Amundsen (1913)
"... F. Personally we did not suffer at all, as we had good fur clothing, but with
the dogs it was another matter. They grew lanker and lanker every day, ..."
3. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"... the veltre of mediaeval records : Elton, p. 294. 8. %a,w6-nooi. : ' lanker,' '
more loosely made. ..."
4. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"... or, the dock-worm, or grub of a pale yellow, longer, lanker, and tougher than
the other, with rows of feet all down his belly, and a red head also, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Generally hair curls in proportion to its flatness, The rounder it is the stiffer
and lanker. These extremes are respectively represented by the Papuans and ..."
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