fank noun a sheepfold, a walled or fenced pen for sheep: But anyway in the holding pen, the yard, the fank as we called it... [This was where DW had to take his lunch because the farmer’s wife would not have him in the house.] 19-. etymology: Scots; Gaelic fang, faing and Irish fang ‘a sheepfold’; attested by DW in DC |