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Landed vs Lanked - What's the difference?

landed | lanked |

As verbs the difference between landed and lanked

is that landed is past tense of land while lanked is past tense of lank.

As an adjective landed

is in possession of land.

landed

English

Adjective

(head)
  • In possession of land.
  • landed gentry
  • Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.
  • a landed estate

    Derived terms

    * landed immigrant

    Verb

    (head)
  • (land)
  • The plane landed at three o'clock.
    He finally landed a new job.

    Anagrams

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    lanked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lank)
  • Anagrams

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    lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
  • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
  • (Webster 1913)

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