[
US
/ˈʃæŋk/
]
[ UK /ʃˈæŋk/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈæŋk/ ]
NOUN
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- 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 part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
VERB
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
How To Use shank In A Sentence
- Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
- Shanks Evans, another companion of First and Second Manassas, was at Kinston, North Carolina. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
- If you're prone to a shank, you'll probably find that even your good shots are closer to the heel.
- There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
- I met wi 'twa dink quines in particular, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was clean-shankit, straught, tight, weelfar'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new-blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
- Calculates the piston displacement, speed, acceleration, and analyzes the forces burden of the piston joint - shank - framework . 3.
- When chasing whiting and garfish I like to use small long-shank hooks.
- After shanking a shot early in that set, she cried out in Italian.
- The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ... Comments for RealityStudio
- Even three years ago a stabbing was serious but now you could get shanked for dissing someone's trainers or holding a stare a second too long.