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Fane vs Fank - What's the difference?

fane | fank |

As nouns the difference between fane and fank

is that fane is a weathercock, a weather vane while fank is a pen for enclosing sheep.

fane

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
  • * 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne , page 541,
  • The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temple or sacred place.
  • * 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16, page 64,
  • Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
  • * 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau , page 78,
  • The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
  • *, chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, page 458,
  • And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.

    fank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen for enclosing sheep
  • References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 ----