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Shank

noun

A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg.

The part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.

Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something. Synonym: stem.

Cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head.

Cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill.

The narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole. Synonym: waist.

Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals. Synonym: cannon.

A poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball.

verb

Hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction.

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"Shank" Quotes from Famous Books

... shank bone, and trim the knuckle, put it into lukewarm water for ten minutes, wash it clean, cover it with cold water, and let it simmer very gently, and skim it carefully. A leg of nine pounds will take two and a half or three ...

— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner

... Dunn, Joe Bovard, and Andy Shank. Joe Bovard had been in the service from the beginning of the war. He was over six feet in height, a good-natured, manly fellow. George Dunn extended upward to an altitude of at least six feet and a half, besides running along ...

— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride

... the head-end; and, having drawn him above the arming of your hook, then put the point of your hook again into the very head of the worm, till it come near to the place where the point of the hook first came out, and then draw back that part of the worm that was above the shank or arming of your hook, and so fish with it. And if you mean to fish with two worms, then put the second on before you turn back the hook's- head of the first worm. You cannot lose above two or three worms before you attain to what ...

— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton

... flock could rank?— Sae hale and hearty every shank! Nae poison'd soor Arminian stank He let them taste; Frae Calvin's well, aye clear, ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... virtues and good qualities, that they felt it reasonable in some things to gratify his fancies and his passion of glory, in pursuit of which he hazarded himself so far, that, besides his other adventures, he had but lately been wounded in the leg by an arrow, which had so shattered the shank-bone that splinters were taken out. And on another occasion he received a violent blow with a stone upon the nape of the neck, which dimmed his sight for a good while afterwards. And yet all this could not hinder him from exposing himself ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

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