Sc. [Cf. FANG sb. 7.] A coil of rope; a noose.
1825–80. in Jamieson.
1826. Scott, Journal, 13 Sept. (1890), I. 255. He [Lord Buchan], too, is a prince of Bores, but age has tamed him a little, like the giant Pope in the Pilgrim’s Progress, he can only sit and grin at Pilgrims as they go past, and is not able to cast a fank over them as formerly. A few quiet puns seem his most formidable infliction nowadays.
