Lanker vs Blanker - What's the difference?

As an adjective lanker

is (lank).

(head)

(lank)

(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)

(en verb)

(rare) To become lank; to make lank.

(Webster 1913)

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(head)

(blank)

* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

And lonely as it is, that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

With no expression, nothing to express.

(en noun)

(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.

* 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)

These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

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