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shank
English
Etymology
From Middle English schanke, from Old English s?anca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skank?, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Norwegian skank), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek ????? (skáz?, “to limp”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Noun
shank (plural shanks)
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- 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.
- (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon; a shiv.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- (printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
Synonyms
- (improvised stabbing weapon): shiv (slang)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)
- (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- 1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers
- the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.
- 1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- 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).
- 2000, The Indian Textile Journal (volume 110, issues 7-12)
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (?ISBN):
- 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.
- 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (?ISBN):
Synonyms
- (to stab with an improvised weapon): shiv (slang)
- (to remove another's pants): depants (slang)
Adjective
shank (comparative shanker, superlative shankest)
- (slang) Bad.
See also
- shank it
- (poorly played golf shot): thin, fat, toe
Anagrams
- Hanks, Naskh, ankhs, hanks, khans
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pritchel
English
Noun
pritchel (plural pritchels)
- A metal punch or shaping tool with a round shank, designed to fit in a pritchel hole in an anvil.
Derived terms
- pritchel hole
Verb
pritchel (third-person singular simple present pritchels, present participle pritchelling, simple past and past participle pritchelled)
- To use this tool.
Anagrams
- chirplet
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