lank Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite long and thin and often limp
    • grown lank with fasting
    • lank mousy hair
  2. adjective satellite long and lean
    spindly.

WordNet

Lank adjective
Etymology
AS. hlanc; cf. G. lenken to turn, gelenk joint, OHG. hlanca hip, side, flank, and E. link of a chain.
Wordforms
comparative Lanker ; superlative Lankest
Definitions
  1. Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
    Meager and lank with fasting grown. Swift.
    Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? Barrow.
  2. Languid; drooping.Obs.
    Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton.
    Macaulay.
Lank intransitive verb & transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become lank; to make lank. Obs. Shak. G. Fletcher.

Webster 1913