Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
See Chank.
- 2verb
The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
- 3verb
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.
- 4verb
That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
- 5verb
The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
- 6verb
That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
- 7verb
A loop forming an eye to a button.
- 8verb
The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- 9verb
A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- 10verb
The body of a type.
- 11verb
The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- 12verb
A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
- 13verb
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- 14intransitive verb
To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.
- 15noun
a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- 16noun
lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
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- 17noun
the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
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- 18noun
cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- 19noun
cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- 20noun
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
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- 21noun
the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- 22noun
a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- 23verb
hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
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