Shank

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.

   “Edward I of England was nicknamed Edward Longshanks.”

2. isim Meat from that part of an animal.
3. isim A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
4. isim A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.

   “The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.”

5. isim The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
6. isim The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
7. isim A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.

   “This twist drill has a reduced shank so that it can be used even in a small chuck.”

8. isim 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.
9. isim A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.

   “To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.”

10. isim The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
11. isim A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
12. isim An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.

    “LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by”

13. isim A loop forming an eye to a button.
14. isim The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
15. isim A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
16. isim The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
17. isim Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
18. isim The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
19. isim The main part or beginning of a period of time.

    “the shank of the morning”

20. fiil To travel on foot.
21. fiil To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
22. fiil To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
23. fiil To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
24. fiil To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.

    “Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.”

25. fiil To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.

    “the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.”

26. fiil To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).

    “The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).”

27. fiil To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.

    “I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.”

28. sıfat Bad.
29. özel isim A surname.