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▪ I. † chank, n.1 Obs.
Shortened form of chancre.
1586Lupton Thous. Notable Th. (N.) Of a marvellous virtue against blearedness of the eyes, chanks, and burning.
▪ II. chank, n.2|tʃæŋk|
[a. Hindī çankh:—Skr. chankha: cf. Pg. chanco, chanquo.]
‘A large kind of shell (Turbinella rapa) prized by the Hindus, and used by them for offering libations, as a horn to blow at the temples, and for cutting into armlets and other ornaments. It is found especially in the Gulf of Manaar’ (Col. Yule).
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 322 (Y.) There are others they call Chanquo; the shells of which are the Mother of Pearl. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. 131 (Y.) Chonk, a Shell-fish in shape of a Periwinkle, but as large as a Man's Arm above the Elbow. 1798T. Maurice Hindostan iv. iii. (1820) II. 276 Nor armed himself with any other panoply than the sacred chank. 1863C. R. Markham in Intell. Observ. IV. 420 Large conch shells called chanks.
2. Comb. and attrib., as chank-bed, chank-fishery, chank-shell.
1833H. Martineau Cinn. & Pearls i. 1 The chank beds that enrich the north-west coast of the island. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 372 The chank and pearl fisheries. 1859Tennent Ceylon 471 Chank-shells contributed to swell the din.
▪ III. chank, v.
App. a dial. and U.S. variant of champ, or a word representing a similar action.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 206 Ramping up the grasse With uglie nailes and chanking it. 1610Markham Masterp. i. xii. 34 His tongue could not well part from the roofe without a kinde of chanking. 1875N. & Q. 27 Feb. 166/1 A mother would say to her child: ‘I'll gée ye a dod [sweet], but ye marnt chank it—you must suck it.’ 1903S. Clapin Dict. Amer. 105 Chank, to chew noisily. (N. Eng.). 1909G. S. Porter Girl of Limberlost xxi. 393 ‘Did they eat it?’ demanded Wesley. ‘They just chanked into it,’ replied Billy. 1913― Laddie iv. 126 The pigs..chanked up every peach that fell there. |