Links vs Lanks - What's the difference?
links | lanks |
(link)
A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
* 1894 , “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page 570
* 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
* 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
* 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
* 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
* 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
(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 nouns the difference between links and lanks
is that links is while lanks is .links
English
Etymology 1
See link.Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(links)- but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
- The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.
- All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
- The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.
- A true links is built on linksland […]
- A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.
Anagrams
* * English invariant nouns ----lanks
English
Verb
(head)lank
English
Adjective
(er)- (Macaulay)