| shank | | |
| n. (food) | 1. shank | a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg. |
| ~ cut of meat, cut | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. |
| ~ foreshank | a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg. |
| ~ hindshank | a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg. |
| n. (body) | 2. shank | the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ leg | a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle. |
| ~ calf, sura | the muscular back part of the shank. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. shank, stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something. |
| ~ anchor, ground tackle | a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving. |
| ~ handgrip, handle, grip, hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" |
| ~ key | metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated. |
| ~ nail | a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener. |
| ~ pin | a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things. |
| ~ wineglass | a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served. |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. shank | cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head. |
| ~ bolt | a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener. |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. shank | cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill. |
| ~ bit | the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press.; "he looked around for the right size bit" |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. shank, waist | the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole. |
| ~ part, portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact.; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" |
| ~ sole | the underside of footwear or a golf club. |
| n. (animal) | 7. cannon, shank | lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals. |
| ~ hoofed mammal, ungulate | any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically. |
| ~ cannon bone | greatly developed metatarsal or metacarpal bone in the shank or cannon part of the leg in hoofed mammals. |
| ~ animal leg | the leg of an animal. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| n. (act) | 8. shank | a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball. |
| ~ golf shot, golf stroke, swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it. |
| v. (contact) | 9. shank | hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction. |
| ~ golf, golf game | a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
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