shank

Etymology
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
 * 2) * Edward I of England was nicknamed Edward Longshanks.
 * 3) Meat from that part of an animal.
 * 4)  A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
 * 5) A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
 * 6) The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
 * 7) The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
 * 8) A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
 * 9) The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
 * 10)  A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
 * 11)  An improvised stabbing weapon.
 * 12) A loop forming an eye to a button.
 * 13)  The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
 * 14)  A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
 * 15)  The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
 * 16)  The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
 * 17) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
 * 18) The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
 * 19) The main part or beginning of a period of time.
 * 1)  A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
 * 2)  The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
 * 3)  The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
 * 4) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
 * 5) The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
 * 6) The main part or beginning of a period of time.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skenkel
 * Arabic: عُرْقُوب
 * Egyptian Arabic: عرقوب
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: подбедрица
 * Catalan: garra
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: sääri
 * Irish: spanla, lorga
 * Italian:
 * Norman: gambe
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: اینجك, باجاق
 * Persian: قلم پا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovak:, , píšťala
 * Ukrainian: гомілка


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: джолан
 * Estonian: koot
 * Finnish:, etupotka , takapotka
 * French:
 * Georgian: კანჭი
 * German: Beinstück,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κωλῆ, κωλήν
 * Italian:
 * Ladino: puli
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: стержен
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Maori: koreke


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: хвостовик


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 * Catalan:
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Verb

 * 1)  To travel on foot.
 * 2)  To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
 * 3)  To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
 * 4)  To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
 * 5)  To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
 * 6)  To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by.
 * 7)  To provide (a button) with a shank loop forming an eye.
 * 8) * 2000, The Indian Textile Journal (volume 110, issues 7-12)
 * The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).
 * 1)  To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
 * 2) * 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (ISBN 9781933237244):
 * I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
 * 1) * 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (ISBN 9781933237244):
 * I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.

Synonyms

 * shiv
 * debag, depants

Adjective

 * 1)  Bad.