Lanker vs Flanker - What's the difference?
lanker | flanker |
(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. -
(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
(obsolete) To attack sideways.
As an adjective lanker
is (lank).As a noun flanker is
(rugby) a player who plays in the back row of the scrum.As a verb flanker is
(obsolete) to defend by lateral fortifications.lanker
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*lank
English
Adjective
(er)- (Macaulay)
Anagrams
* ----flanker
English
Noun
(en noun)- They threw out flankers , and endeavored to dislodge their assailants.
Verb
(en verb)- (Evelyn)