shank

shank is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Chank. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See Chank.
2. verb. The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
3. verb. 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.
4. verb. That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
5. verb. The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
6. verb. That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
7. verb. A loop forming an eye to a button.
8. verb. The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
9. verb. A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
10. verb. The body of a type.
11. verb. The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
12. verb. A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
13. verb. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
14. intransitive verb. To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.
15. noun. a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
16. noun. lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

    Synonyms: cannon

17. noun. the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

    Synonyms: waist

18. noun. cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
19. noun. cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
20. noun. cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

    Synonyms: stem

21. noun. the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
22. noun. a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
23. verb. hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

Synonyms

cannon, waist, stem

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shank:

ankhs, hanks, khans

Common word forms

shanks, shanked, shanker, shanking

Words from these letters

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