Shanks is valid Scrabble Word

Is shanks a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for SHANKS in dictionary:

VERB:

SHANK, 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

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
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 SHANKS

shank12 shanked15 shanking16

Words that contain SHANKS

redshanks17 foreshanks20 hindshanks21 greenshanks19 scrimshanks22 sheepshanks23 skrimshanks24 spindleshanks23

How to use SHANKS in a sentence

Shanks also made a reputation for himself as a fielder.
He has the shanks of another moose which he has since shot, skinned and stuffed, ready to be made into boots by putting in a thick leather sole.
As the light grew some strength came back to me, and presently I was able to hobble a little on my rickety shanks.
He was a long, lank, pallid varlet, going by the name of Shanks.
For a time, Jack Chase, out of a polite nervousness touching myself, as a newly-elected member of the club, would frequently endeavour to excuse to me the vulgarity of Shanks.
He was a decrepit and very dirty old man, in a tight blue frock-coat, and swathed as to his spindle shanks with scarlet leggings.
The men had wool clothes with brass buttons that had shanks on em.
No interrupting word was spoken, but every eye remained fastened on the lean, keen face peering over long slender shanks and hand-clasped knees.
The bit handle is the entire tool, the square socket or opening being made in the end of the handle, in which the shanks of bits may be inserted.
Any sized bit required is inserted into the chuck, which is adjustable to fit large and small shanks.

And he sat, his lean shanks crossed, nodding at the steam escaping from the cooking-pot with a gaze senile and worried.
The shanks of the collectors are fitted in these brass balls with the ends extending, to which insulating handles are attached.
But his lean shanks wearied, keeping time to the giddy music.
So well did Havelok and his fellows fight, breaking ribs and arms and shanks, and cracking crowns, that not a thief of all the sixty-one was left alive.
With that quavering voice of his, that bald forehead, and those spindle shanks trembling under the weight of a senile frame, he may look forward to a long career of decrepitude.
In the floor and the top board of the frame, holes were drilled just large enough for the shanks of the spools to fit snugly in them.
Both the screw eyes and eye bolts had welded eyes and the shanks of the eye bolts were 6 inches long.
The shanks at the top of the forks were firmly driven into holes in the crosspiece near the ends.

Similar words containing SHANK without suffix s

shank12 shanked15 redshank16 shanking16 foreshank19 hindshank20 redshanks17 shankbone18 foreshanks20 greenshank18 hindshanks21 scrimshank21 shankbones19 shankpiece21 sheepshank22 skrimshank23 greenshanks19 scrimshanks22 shankpieces22 sheepshanks23 skrimshanks24 scrimshanked24 scrimshanker23 skrimshanked26 skrimshanker25 scrimshankers24 scrimshanking25 skrimshankers26 skrimshanking27 spindleshanks23

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