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Rh   hangla,, to hang dangling, to balance, as well as, , which is a parallel form to, but reported in another sense.

hank [ha‘ŋk],, 1) a loop, strap. 2) junction of a boat’s side-boards with the stem or stern; often in the , hanks, of the one join, when the word stands by itself, not as a with “fore” or “efter”. de fore-h. (hanks), the joining in the stem, de efter-h. (hanks), the joining in the stern. is often used as a word in sense of stem-compartment (fore-h.) or stern-compartment (efter-h.). — a coil; circular band; handle, hanki, , and hǫnk,   hank in sense of rope for tying up. — In sense of ball of thread, hank of yarn or thread (= honk, nystehonk), assimilates to hank,

hank [ha‘ŋk],, 1) to make loops or bights, = hanka (Aa.); to h.  de tedder [‘tether’], to coil the tether (the cow’s tether). to “h. ” yarn, to unwind yarn from a ball in knitting. For “h. aff” now also “hankie aff” (, to entangle; twist together). 2) to stop the execution of a work, in the phrase “to h. ane’s hand”, to let the hand rest; he his hand; h. dy hand a “halicrack”! hold on! stop for a minute!  here doubtless means rope-handle. hanka,, to fasten together, to hook in a loop, hank,, to coil.

hankl$1$, hankel [ha‘ŋkəl, hä‘ŋkəl], , =, 1; to h. (op) de line (the fishing-line) or de tedder [‘tether’]; to h. (yarn) = to . —  hankle,, is used  (to entangle; twist together). — See $2$,

hankl$2$, hankel [ha‘ŋkel],, 1) to idle, of idlers: to geng aboot, = $1$,   2) of unsettled weather: to keep tolerably, continue in the same way (on the point of shifting); he is. — hangla,, inter alia to hang dangling, also to remain undecided; to balance (R.). hangla, , to stick at one’s heels, to follow up, —  for *; see ,

hanklin [ha‘ŋklin],, continuous unsettled weather. something which remains undecided, balancing. *hangling(r). See $2$, 2, and ,

, he; only in some fragments, handed down in Norn: a) a short verse peculiar to Unst, applied to a lad, returned home from Scotland (Caithness): ca’  mare he can call a “mare”; b)  [haᶇa dâga], the day dawns : *hann dagar; c) [häᶇæ]: in a riddle from of the armless and legless man (the sun that melts the snow). hann,, he. —  [hain] is doubtless the same word, noted down in the  tabu-term, belonging to fishermen’s : (der ’r) a ahead o’ hersell [‘herself’], there is a boat ahead of ours. “hersell” replaces “himsell”, which must be the older of these two words, as  bátr, a boat, is of the masculine gender. boat). The term originates most from, where shø [‘she’] is used for “he” far more widely than in  the use of the words and of a person or thing that one does not wish to mention by name.
 * hann [häᶇ], *hanna [haᶇa (häᶇa)],
 * hanne [häᶇæ], 3rd, ,
 * he (a boat) before him (another

hanna [haᶇa, häᶇa],, here! come here! a cry to birds,