hairline vs lank

hairline

adj
  • very thin, as thin as a hair 

noun
  • A fishing line made from hair. 

  • The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. 

  • A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography. 

  • A very thin fissure. 

lank

adj
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. 

  • Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.) 

verb
  • To become lank. 

How often have the words hairline and lank occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )