shank

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
2. Meat from that part of an animal.
3. (colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
4. A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
5. The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
6. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
7. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
8. 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. A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
10. The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
11. A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
12. (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
13. A loop forming an eye to a button.
14. The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
15. A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
16. (dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
17. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
18. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
19. The main part or beginning of a period of time.

Verb

1. (Ulster, archaic) To travel on foot.
2. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
3. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
4. (transitive) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. (transitive) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
6. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
7. (transitive) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
8. To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.

Adj

Bad.

Conceptos

pierna

🦵

zanca

miembro inferior

espinilla

caña

muslo

pata

tallo

tibia

vástago

fuste

🪵

pincho

tija

cabo

🔚

parte inferior de la pierna

cadera

canilla

espiga

mango

Sinónimos

shin

leg

🦵

lower leg

shaft

pivot

stem

rod

calf

foreleg

paw

spindle

cannon

stalk

helve

waist

tibia

thigh

sandpiper

scape

shinbone

slip

spur

stick

stipe

stock

sura

tattler

toe

walk

🚶

caudex

handle of pot

podetium

rectus

draw tube

cnemis

two-man ladle

lens cone

butchery cut

ש

shin leg

arm

wood shot

axis

carom

crus

cutting

cylinder

foot

🦶

graft

haft

Traducciones

jambe

🦵

perna

🦵

gamba

🦵

Unterschenkel

crus

🦵

cama

🦵

Bein

bacak

🦵

been

🦵

Schaft

canela

stinco

poot

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʃæŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: schanke

Heredado de inglés antiguo: sċanca

Cognado con frisón occidental: skonk

Cognado con bajo alemán: Schanke

Cognado con alemán: Schenkel

Cognado con danés: skank

Cognado con noruego: skank

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: skakkr

Cognado con irlandés medio: scingim

Cognado con griego antiguo: σκάζω

In summary

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Dutch schenkel, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).