shank.html - n.
1 a the leg. b the lower part of the leg; the leg from knee to ankle. c the shin-bone.
2 the lower part of an animal's foreleg, esp. as a cut of meat.
3 a shaft or stem.
4 a the long narrow part of a tool etc. joining the handle to the working end. b the stem of a key, spoon, anchor, etc. c the straight part of a nail or fish-hook.
5 the narrow middle of the sole of a shoe.

shanks's mare (or pony) one's own legs as a means of conveyance.

shanked adj. (also in comb.). [OE sceanca f. WG]

shank.html - contr. shall not.

shank.html - n.
(pl. -ies) a mixture of beer with lemonade or ginger beer. [19th c.: orig. unkn.]

shank.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr. (shanghais, shanghaied, shanghaiing)
1 force (a person) to be a sailor on a ship by using drugs or other trickery.
2 colloq. put into detention or an awkward situation by trickery.
3 Austral. & NZ shoot with a catapult.

--n.

(pl. shanghais) Austral. & NZ a catapult. [Shanghai in China]

shank.html - n.
an imaginary paradise on earth. [the name of a hidden Tibetan valley in J. Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933)]

shank.html - n.
1 a the leg. b the lower part of the leg; the leg from knee to ankle. c the shin-bone.
2 the lower part of an animal's foreleg, esp. as a cut of meat.
3 a shaft or stem.
4 a the long narrow part of a tool etc. joining the handle to the working end. b the stem of a key, spoon, anchor, etc. c the straight part of a nail or fish-hook.
5 the narrow middle of the sole of a shoe.

shanks's mare (or pony) one's own legs as a means of conveyance.

shanked adj. (also in comb.). [OE sceanca f. WG]