Ordeal vs Hank - What's the difference?
ordeal | hank |
A painful or trying experience.
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A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
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(archaic) A diminutive of the given name Hankin (a medieval form of John).
As nouns the difference between ordeal and hank
is that ordeal is a painful or trying experience while hank is a coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.As a verb hank is
to form into hanks.ordeal
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Arsène Wenger confessed: "The result was not an accurate indication of the match." Certainly, at half-time it seemed unlikely that Arsenal would catch fire so spectacularly because the first half was a damp squib of a display from Wenger's team, as Newcastle initially showed no ill-effects from their Old Trafford ordeal .}}
