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Webster 1913 Edition


Hanch

{

Hance

(hăns)
,

Hanch

(hănch)
, }
Noun.
[See
Hanse
.]
1.
(Arch.)
See
Hanse
.
2.
(Naut.)
A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.