Usually means: Rod or bar, often metal.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shank: Merriam-Webster
  3. shank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shank, shank: Wordnik
  8. shank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shank: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Shank, shank: Wiktionary
  11. shank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. shank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. shank: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. shank: Dictionary.com
  15. shank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Shank (footwear), Shank (meat), Shank (sewing), Shank (video game), Shank (weapon), Shank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shank: Rhymezone
  20. Shank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shank: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shank: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shank: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. shank: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shank: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. shank: Medical dictionary
  6. Shank: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shank: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shank, shank, shank, shank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. SHANK, shank, the shank: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. shank: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Shank: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SHANK: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shank)

noun:  The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
noun:  Meat from that part of an animal.
noun:  (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
noun:  A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
noun:  The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
noun:  The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
noun:  A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
noun:  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.
noun:  (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
noun:  (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.
noun:  A loop forming an eye to a button.
noun:  (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
noun:  (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
noun:  (printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
noun:  (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
noun:  Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
noun:  The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
noun:  The main part or beginning of a period of time.
verb:  (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
verb:  (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
verb:  (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
verb:  (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
verb:  (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
adjective:  (slang) Bad.
noun:  A surname.

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