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** English
[Shank]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en] (compare [fy], [nl], [nds],
[de], [da], [no], [sv]), from [gem-pro] (compare [non]), from [en] (compare
[mga], [grc].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
2. * 吴语: Edward I of England was nicknamed Edward Long SHANKS .
3. * [passage=His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk SHANK [ … ]]
4. Meat from that part of an animal.
5. [en] A redshank or greenshank , various species of Old World wading birds in the genus _Tringa_ having distinctly colored legs.
6. A straight , narrow part of an object , such as a key or an anchor ; shaft ; stem .
7. * [chapter=IV]
8. The handle of a pair of shears , connecting the ride to the neck .
9. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook , the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point .
10. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached .
11. 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.
12. [en] A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
13. * [en]
14. [en] The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel .
15. [en] A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also _shankpiece_ .)
16. [en] [en] An improvised stabbing weapon , orig. in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
17. * [en]
18. * [en]
19. A loop forming an eye to a button .
20. [en] The space between two channel s of the Doric triglyph . [18th century]
21. [en] A large ladle for molten metal , fitted with long bars for handling it.
22. [en] The body of a type ; between the shoulder and the foot .
23. Flat-nosed pliers , used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
24. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
25. The main part or beginning of a period of time.
26. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |bit shank|ham shank|shank-iron|shank-painter|velvet shank
|greenshank |Longshanks |redshank |shankbone<t:bone of the foreleg> |shank-nag
|shanks' mare |shanks' nag |shanks' pony |shank-weary |umbroshank}}
**** Translations
[lower part of the leg]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [in humans] , [fi] [in animals]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [in humans] , [ru] [in horses]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[meat from that part of animal]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [front leg] , [fi] [hind leg]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[straight, narrow part of an object]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[The centre part of a fishhook]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[protruding part of an object, by which it can be attached]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[part of curb bit]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[an improvised stabbing weapon]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a bird of the genus _Tringa_]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To travel on foot .
2. [en] To stab , especially with an improvised blade.
3. [en] To remove another's trousers , especially in jest; to depants .
4. [en] To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. [en] To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction .
6. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=September 28, 2011 |author=Tom Rostance |title=Arsenal 2 - 1
Olympiakos |work=BBC Sport
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14998317.stm |page=
|passage=[Marouane Chamakh] then spurned a great chance to kill the game off
when he ran onto [Andrey Arshavin]'s lofted through ball but SHANKED his shot
horribly across the face of goal.}}
1. [en] To fall off, as a leaf , flower , or capsule , on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk ; usually followed by [en] .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=w:Charles Darwin | title=Cause of the variation of flowers
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To provide (a button) with a shank [loop forming an eye] .
2. * 2000 , _The Indian Textile Journal_ (volume 110, issues 7-12) < !--"page 2000-148"??-->
3. *: The system is suitable for SHANKING all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).
4. [en] To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
5. * 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [ _Poetry_ , 147 ] , quoted in 2009 , Deborah Boe, _The Girl of the Early Race: Poems_ , Gegensatz Press ( [9781933237244] ):
6. *: 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.
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Bad .
*** See also
- [en]
- [poorly played golf shot] thin , fat , toe
*** Anagrams
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