Landed vs Lanked - What's the difference?
landed | lanked |
In possession of land.
Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.
(land)
(lank)
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. -
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)- landed gentry
- a landed estate
Derived terms
* landed immigrantVerb
(head)- The plane landed at three o'clock.
- He finally landed a new job.
Anagrams
*lanked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *lank
English
Adjective
(er)- (Macaulay)