shank /shangk/

1. The leg from knee to foot
2. The corresponding part in other vertebrates
3. The lower part of the foreleg, esp as a cut of meat
4. A shaft, stem, straight or long part
5. The part of a shoe connecting sole with heel
6. The leg of a stocking
7. A long-handled ladle for molten metal
8. An act of shanking a golf ball
9. The end, latter part (dialect)

1. To be affected with disease of the footstalk (botany)
2. To take to one's legs (also transitive verb with it)

1. To dispatch unceremoniously (Scot)
2. To strike (the ball) by mistake close to the heel of the club so that it makes contact with the hosel, causing the ball to fly to the right (for a right-handed player) (golf)

shanked adjective

1. Having a shank
2. Affected with disease of the shank or footstalk (botany)

shankˈbone noun

on Shanks's pony, mare, nag, etc

On foot

• full-court press
• full cousin
• full cousins
• full-cream
• full dress
• full-dress
• full-dress debate
• full-dress debates
• fulled
• fuller
• fullerene
• fullerenes
• fullers
• fuller's earth
• fuller's-herb
• fullest
• full-eyed
• full-face
• full-faced
• full-fashioned
• full-fed
• full-fledged
• full fling
• full-fraught
• full-front