trank

¹ American  

[trangk] / træŋk /

noun

Slang.

1. a tranquilizer.

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trank ² American  

[trangk] / træŋk /

noun

1. the piece of leather from which one glove is cut.

2. the cut or shaped trank, not including thumb, gussets, and fourchettes.

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Etymology

Origin of trank¹

By shortening and respelling

Origin of trank²

First recorded in 1860–65; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

On Says You! you will hear real or bluff definitions of such words as trank, chelp, and fubsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Es ging ihm nichts darüber, Er leert’ ihn jeden Schmaus, Die Augen gingen ihm über So oft er trank daraus.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

To accomplish this operation the trank must be firmly stretched in one direction, and while so stretched a "redell" stamps the proper dimensions in the other direction, to which the leather is trimmed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 by Various

I don't believe I've had a trank in the past twenty years, Miss Haer.

From Mercenary by Birmingham, Lloyd

The trank must be so cut as to have just enough leather to make a glove of a certain size and number.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 by Various