Sc. [f. FANK sb.1] trans. To put (sheep) in a fank; to pen up (Jam.). Hence Fanked ppl. a., penned up; in quot. transf. of a sword: Set fast in the sheath.
a. 1600[?]. The Death of Parcy Reed, xxviii. in Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1890), VII. cxciii. 27/6.
| ‘We ’ll pay thee at the nearest tree, | |
| Where we shall hang thee like a hound;’ | |
| Brave Parcy raised his fankit sword, | |
| And felld the foremost to the ground. |
