fank

From Scottish Gaelic fang, from Scots fank, perhaps ultimately related to archaic fang (“to seize, catch”).

• (without æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˈfæŋk/, [ˈfæŋk]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈfaŋk/, [ˈfa̠ŋk]
• (æ-raising)
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋk]; /ˈfɛ̃ŋk/, [ˈfɛ̃ŋk]
• Rhymes: -æŋk
• Hyphenation: fank
• Homophone: thank (th-fronting)

fank (plural fanks)

1. A pen for enclosing sheep, mainly in the Scottish Highlands.

fank (third-person singular simple present fanks, present participle fanking, simple past and past participle fanked)

1. (transitive) To place (sheep) in a pen.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “fank”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.