hank

écheveau

Longueur de fil, de laine ou de corde enroulée en boucles lâches.

En anglais simple : A length of thread, wool, or rope wound into a loose bundle of loops.

• She bought a hank of wool.
• Two hanks of yarn lay beside her needles.
• He unwound the hank of rope carefully.

Comment l'utiliser : a hank of something (I need another hank of cotton yarn.)

Synonymes : skein, coil

Expressions courantes : hank of yarn, hank of rope

doute, difficulté

Doute ou difficulté qui rend quelque chose incertain ou difficile à faire.

En anglais simple : A doubt or difficulty that makes something uncertain or hard to do.

• A hank remained in his mind.
• They faced a hank in settling the matter.
• She resolved the last hank before proceeding.

Synonymes : doubt, difficulty

Expressions courantes : a troublesome hank, a lingering hank

enchevêtrement

Ensemble désordonné de choses entortillées ou mélangées.

En anglais simple : A confused mass of things twisted or mixed together.

• The thread was a hank.
• He pulled at the tangled hank of rope.
• She spent an hour sorting out the hank.

Synonymes : tangle, mess

Expressions courantes : a tangled hank, hank of thread

lien

Morceau de corde ou branche souple servant à maintenir une barrière fermée.

En anglais simple : A piece of rope or a flexible branch used to hold a gate shut.

• He tied the gate with a hank.
• The old hank broke in the wind.
• She replaced the hank before the cattle escaped.

Expressions courantes : gate hank, a rope hank

mettre en écheveaux

Enrouler du fil, de la laine ou de la corde en faisceaux de boucles lâches.

En anglais simple : To wind thread, wool, or rope into loose bundles of loops.

• She hanked the yarn.
• We hank the wool before dyeing it.
• He carefully hanked each length of thread.

Expressions courantes : hank the yarn, hank the wool