| Noun | 1. | shank - a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the legcut 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 | |
| 2. | shank - the part of the human leg between the knee and the anklebody 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 between the knee and ankle calf, sura - the muscular back part of the shank | |
| 3. | shank - cylinder forming a long narrow part of somethinghandgrip, 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 | |
| 4. | shank - cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the headbolt - a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener cylinder - a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | |
| 5. | shank - cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drillbit - 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 | |
| 6. | shank - the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the soleportion, part - 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 golfclub | |
| 7. | shank - lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammalshoofed mammal, ungulate - any of a number of hoofed mammals 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 body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity | |
| 8. | shank - a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | |
| Verb | 1. | shank - hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong directiongolf, 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" | |