Chank

Speaking of the "chank" shell, that is the name given in the East Indies to certain varieties of the _voluta gravis_, fished up by divers in the ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

On Valentines Day I heard a band playing that chanky-chank mixtec music, and firecrackers going off, and the bells ringing madly at the church around the corner – It was a neighborhood fiesta. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Notable among these was Ta-chank-pee Ho-tank-a, or His War Club Speaks Loud, who foretold a year in advance the details of a great war-party against the Ojibways. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Thumb setting to work again, they heard very clearly the coins ringing, chink, chank, as they struck one against the other. ❋ Gebr��der Grimm (1909)

And when a pounded away at a shoe, and her young arm going like a flail -- chink, chank -- chink, chank -- and th 'white spatters o' hot iron flying this way and that from th 'anvil, meseemed ❋ Am��lie Rives (1904)

"I do declar ', it sets me plumb catawampus ter hev ter listen ter them blacksmiths, up yander ter thar shop, at thar everlastin' chink - chank an 'chink-chank, considerin' the tales I hearn 'bout 'em, when I war down ter the quiltin 'at M'ria's house in the Cove." ❋ Pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock (1885)

Buddhists, by pouring upon his forehead consecrated water from a chank-shell. ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

The king, his courtiers, and the chief priests being gathered round him, thanksgiving is offered up; and then the lordly beast is knighted, after the ancient manner of the Buddhists, by pouring upon his forehead consecrated water from a chank-shell. ❋ Leonowens, Anna H (1870)

Next he waved mysteriously a few gold coins, then dropped twenty-one drops of cold water out of a jewelled shell, [Footnote: The conch, or chank shell] and finally, muttering something in Sanskrit, and placing in my hand a small silk bag containing a title of nobility and the number and description of the roods of lands pertaining to it, bade me rise, “Chow Khoon Crue Yai”! ❋ Leonowens, Anna H (1870)

Speaking of the “chank” shell, that is the name given in the East Indies to certain varieties of the voluta gravis, fished up by divers in the Gulf of Manaar, on the northwest coast of Ceylon. ❋ Leonowens, Anna H (1870)

This tendency of particular localities to re-produce certain specialities of form and colour is not confined to the sea or to the instance of the chank shell. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

Manaar has been fished from the earliest times for the large chank shell, _Turbinella_ _rapa_, to be exported to India, where it is still sawn into rings and worn as anklets and bracelets by the women of ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

He sent sapphires, lapis lazuli [1], and rubies, a right hand chank [2], and three bamboos for chariot poles, remarkable because their natural marking resembled the carvings of flowers and animals. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

Elephants, horses, carts, and myriads of people pass and repass, jugglers, dancers, and musicians of all nations, with chank shells and other instruments ornamented with gold. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

A chank, in which the whorls, instead of running from left to right, as in the ordinary shell, are reversed, and run from right to left, is regarded with such reverence that a specimen formerly sold for its weight in gold, but one may now be had for four or five pounds. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

BERTOLACCI mentions a curious local peculiarity [1] observed by the fishermen in the natural history of the chank. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

India, speaks of these shells by the name they still bear, which he states to be _schenek_ [3]; but "schenek" is not an Arabic word, and is merely an attempt to spell the local term, _chank_, in Arabic characters. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

This is not the first such chank shipment to have passed the other hurdles, but being stopped by the BPU. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Birds 'nests, endemic water plants, butterfly cocoons, undersize shipments of chank are among the recent spoils nabbed by the vigilant eyes of the Customs' ❋ Unknown (2010)

A shipment of chank that contained more than 75% undersized shells was also detected by the BPU recently. ❋ Unknown (2010)

AA-Rabs, Jews, Neegers, and all those kinds of [chanks]....stank! hey kyle, [jet lee] called, he wants his eyes back. [rick james bitch] ❋ Pat Dutcha (2004)

Luc you chank, put your shirt back on. Shut up [chanker] [stanker]! Get your [chank ass] out of here. ❋ The Bay Area 510 (2006)

man did you see that chank? she [looked] like a [whale] with [lipstick] on ❋ Elctra112930 (2009)

Dave: "Yo do you want to chank bro? I got some decent trees on me." Jason: "Of [fo sho]!" [---] Matt: "[Dayummm]! I just wanna chank all weekend." ❋ Batwing George (2012)

"All the [chanks] show up after 1 a.m. because the [beer goggles] are [thicker]." ❋ LazyNine (2006)

[Wasup] my [Chank] [brotha]... ❋ Chinaman Mao (2003)

[Chank]: I'm [failing]!!!!!! American: How badly? Chank: [A 99]%, that sucks so badly!!!! :'( ❋ IAChank (2011)

Alex: [Maren], your such a chank. Look how [bumpy] your head is. [Natalie], you gotta feel this. ❋ Mareeenn :) (2008)

"[Chank]!! Chank you [lousy] [mutt], get over here!!" ❋ Bmunge (2009)

She begged me to chank her like I did [last] time! I [chanked] her until we both [passed out]. ❋ Cybermyzer (2005)