Usually means: Long, slender, and often limp.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Lank:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lank: Merriam-Webster
  3. lank, lank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lank: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lank: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lank, Lank, lank: Wordnik
  7. lank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lank, lank: Wiktionary
  9. lank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lank: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lank, lank: Dictionary.com
  13. lank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Lank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lank: Rhymezone
  18. Lank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lank: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lank: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LANK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lank, lank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lank: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lanker as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lank)

adjective:  Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
adjective:  (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
adjective:  (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
adjective:  (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
verb:  (rare, intransitive) To become lank.
noun:  A surname.

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