Word Finder - hanks

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A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.

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A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.

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Doubt, difficulty.

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Mess, tangle.

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A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

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Hold; influence.

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A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks - Wilson and Hanks met while filming the 80's television series Bosom Buddies but didn't couple-up until they co-starred together in the film Volunteers.

Tom Hanks - Hanks had quite a bit of success in the 80's, but it was his movies in the 19990's that truly made him a star.

Thus 2/40 9 cotton indicates single 40 9 doubled to 20 hanks by 840 yds.

On the silver screen, Abdul helped numerous actors perfect their dance movements, including Tom Hanks in Big and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire.

After the huge box office success of Footloose, Singer acted in other 1980s fare such as The Man with One Red Shoe, alongside Tom Hanks, The Falcon and the Snowman and Summer Heat.

From this list, you can also see that the only two actors to ever win back-to-back Best Actor awards are Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks.

Customers may recognize the store's floor piano, a working piano that is played by stepping on the keys, from its appearance in the Tom Hanks movie Big.

Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - A widowed father (Tom Hanks) speaks on a radio show about how much his misses his wife and picks up the interest of a young woman (Meg Ryan).

The watch was seen in the movie Dragnet, where Tom Hanks wore it.

He receives the raw silk in hanks as it is taken from the reel of the filature, and putting it on a light reel of a similar construction, called the swifts, FIG.

From these bobbins the silk is reeled into hanks of definite length for the market.

The English cotton yarn and spun silk counts are reckoned upon the number of hanks of 840 yds.

After being dried, the hanks are packed in linen bags and boiled for three hours in a weaker soapy solution, then washed out in pure warm water and dried in a centrifugal hydroextractor.

Silks to be finished white are at this point bleached by exposure in a closed chamber to the fumes of sulphurous acid, and at the close of the process the hanks are washed in pure cold water to remove all traces of the acid.

Professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) is lecturing in Paris when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder case.

It's the very special dying process that turns plain white cotton hanks into Rowan's unique Denim yarn.

I saw a mill at work where they was spinning N94 hanks (two indistinct words) very good and very even.

Cinema is the ultimate right-wing art form Mark Cousins Democrat tom hanks is number one box office just about everywhere in the world.

Updated litigation page, t hanks to Richard Hann at ICI Imagedata.

Gordon Hanks gave a talk on the control of basal rot at an HDC Narcissus Seminar in Spalding.

Born in 1956, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks went from dressing in drag on the sitcom Bosom Buddies to earning five Academy Award nominations and two of the actual awards.

Hanks is a prolific actor, turning in memorable roles in such iconic films as Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Philadelphia, and Big.

Malibu - Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg live in this beach resort area, which takes advantage of the warm California weather, but allows them to hide from the paparazzi a little more.

Tawny Kitaen had a leading role in the 1984 comedy film Bachelor Party, opposite Tom Hanks, but she will likely be most remembered for her music video appearances.

Roberts is currently filming Charlie Wilson's War, opposite Tom Hanks, set to open in 2007.

His recurring sketches included "The Girl Watchers" (with Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz) and "Mr.

He appeared in a number of Saturday Night Live sketches when he was a writer for the show, including a parody of Twin Peaks, a commercial parody for "Irish Drinking Songs," and a sketch for Tom Hanks' entrance into the "Five Timers Club."

Her new film, which also stars Tom Hanks, is due out in December 2007.

His father, Thomas (1778-1851), was born in Rockingham (then Augusta) county, Virginia; he was hospitable, shiftless, restless and unsuccessful, working now as a carpenter and now as a farmer, and could not read or write before his marriage, in Washington county, Kentucky, on the 12th of June 1806, to Nancy Hanks (1783-1818), who was a native of Virginia, who is said to have been the illegitimate daughter of one Lucy Hanks, and who seems to have been, in 1 Lincoln's birthday is a legal holiday in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.