“A hank of a given length is reeled, just like a hank of cotton yarn to be made into cloth.”

“It wasn't until I found the hank of hair that day that I began to keep an eye on the people who sat at the back of the room and watched who came in and out of the door.”

“Snarled hanks of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.”

“He pushed hanks of auburn back out of his eyes and held the spiral-linked booklet out towards me.”

“But most of these are continental in flavour, with hanks of Parma ham hanging from the ceiling and boxes of Pannatone piled high.”