Shank is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHANK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hit sharply to the right, as a golf ball
• strike (the ball) with the heel of the club
• slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife
• The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
• Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.
• That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
• The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
• That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
• A loop forming an eye to a button.
• The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
• A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
• The body of a type.
• The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
• A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
• Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
• To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.
• hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
• (of fruits, roots, etc) to show disease symptoms
NOUN:
• a long, narrow part of a tool connecting the handle to the operational end
• the cylindrical part of a bit by which it is held in a drill.
• the long stem of a key, spoon, anchor, etc.
• the straight part of a fish hook.
• a part or appendage by which something is attached to something else, especially a wire loop attached to the back of a button.
• the band of a ring rather than the setting or gemstone.
• the narrow middle of the sole of a shoe
• a makeshift knife fashioned from a sharp item such as broken glass or a razor
• lower leg
• See Chank.
• a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
• the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
• cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
• cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
• the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
• lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
• a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
• a person's leg, especially the part from the knee to the ankle
• the lower part of an animal's foreleg
• the shank of an animal's leg as a cut of meat

Words related to SHANK

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Words that contain SHANK

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How to use SHANK in a sentence

• Cracks, or their starting-points, may also be caused by using too wide a shoe, or by the use of nails too large in the shank.
• A few strokes of the hammer in connexion with some trifling moulds and measures, attached to the anvil, perfect, in two or three minutes the blade and its tang or shank.
• Now and then, he took out an instrument-case, from which he produced a shank, which he introduced and turned in the locks.
• A slit, being nearly the portion of a circle, is cut in this plate, so that the shank of the index may play freely through its whole range.
• The worm is supported in the axis of the bore by means of a guide-ring of composition, kept in place on the shank, six inches from the end, by a shoulder and forelock.
• For the Navy time-fuze these are made of steel, with a round shank, four inches long, four-tenths of an inch diameter.
• The end consists of a flexible silk woven tip attached securely to a steel shank.
• The proper method is gently to close the side curved forceps on the shank of the tack near the head, push downward as shown by the dart, in B, until the point emerges.
• It consists in an adjustable spring gage bar attached to the shank of each drill tooth, whereby the teeth may be made to enter the ground a greater or less depth.
• It was supposed that the anchor had parted at the shank, and another anchor was let go.
• Shank Dollard shot a vicious glance at the man seated at his desk.
• The dye was made by digging up red shank and wild indigo roots which were boiled.
• Miller made him knock off along in the shank of the evening, as he had done enough for any one day.
• Although not of the largest size, being only ten inches in the shank, it was made of splendid steel, and we had frequently caught fifteen-feet sharks with it at sea.
• Dalgas seized the hot ham by its shank and beat the fellow with it till he cried for mercy.
• Rivets made in open dies are liable to have a fin on the shank, which prevents a close fit into the holes of the plates.
• The use of solid dies in forming the rivet insures a round shank, and an accurate fit in a round hole.
• But Polynices ran up with his spear, when he saw a stroke open to his steel, and the Argive spear passed through the shank.
• This results in the close electrical contact between the sleeve conductor of the cord and the inner metal surface of the shank of the plug.
• His head was bald of flesh and of hair, His body was lean and lank, His joints at each stir made a crack, and the cur Took a gnaw, by the way, at his shank.
• He had been paring potatoes for dinner and what was left of his right hand held the shank of his potato knife.
• Upon this again a large dish is placed, and in this dish is a shank bone of a shoulder of lamb, with a small matter of meat on it, which is burnt quite brown on the fire.
• He makes them touch also the dish, containing the egg and shank bone of the lamb, and repeat with him a formula of words suited to the subject.
• Then with a chisel the sides were split off, forming a large pin with a square shank 8 inches long.
• For the steering wheel Bill took the front fork and wheel of his new bicycle, letting the shank into a hole at the stern end of the backbone.

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