Crossword-Solution: SHANK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shank | n. | See Chank. |
| Shank | v. | The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. |
| Shank | v. | 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. |
| Shank | v. | That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. |
| Shank | v. | The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. |
| Shank | v. | That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. |
| Shank | v. | A loop forming an eye to a button. |
| Shank | v. | The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. |
| Shank | v. | A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. |
| Shank | v. | The body of a type. |
| Shank | v. | The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. |
| Shank | v. | A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks. |
| Shank | v. | Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. |
| Shank | v. i. | To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHANK | anagram | ANKHS, HANKS, KAHNS, KHANS |
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Sentences with SHANK (5)
Santa Cruz sits exposed at the shank; the mouth of the Salinas river is at the middle of the bend; and Monterey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb.
With the purpose of covering up her act and dissembling the woman sat down, and the shank of the wood was pushed through the posterior wall of the vagina into the peritoneal cavity.
What was he to do? Why on earth should he leave his letters unanswered and his mail topsy turvy to rush forth in the shank of the morning at the bidding of a young woman whom he abhorred.
One was unharmed; another had so tightly twisted the cord about its shank that one foot was curled up and seemed paralyzed; the third, in its struggles to escape, had sawn through the flesh of the thigh and so much harmed itself that I thought it humane to put an end to its misery.
Jabe Slocum, Pitt Packard, Brad Gibson, Cyse Higgins, and scores of others were riding “shank's mare,” as they would have said.
Quotes with SHANK (3)
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange…
Every day is an opportunity to stand in awe when witnessing the overpowering presence of nature, an apt time to pay reverence for the inestimable beauty of life. I must remain mindful to live in an ethical manner by paying attention to the threat of injustice towards other people and resist capitulating to the absurdity of being a finite body born into infinite space and time. I am part of the world, a spar in a sacred composition, a body of energy suspended in the cosmos. I …
I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's and some greasy egg rolls at the Formosa. In part funny, and rigid, and sleepy, and angry. People. Then I made concentric circles outward, reaching first to Canter's and Pink's, then rippling farther, tofu at Yabu and mole at Alegria and sugok at Marouch; the sweet-corn salad at Casbah in Silver Lake and Rae's charbroiled burgers o…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 71 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).