Ranker vs Lanker - What's the difference?

As a noun ranker

is .

(lank).

(head)

(rank)

(en noun)

One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.

A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.

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(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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