Shanks

For instance, if the Tower decides that the player has encountered Brigands, it will turn to the Brigands cel, simultaneously displaying the number of brigands encountered. If the player chooses to fight, the Tower resolves the battle by alternately counting off the remaining numbers of friendly troops and Brigands. Once all events have resolved, the Tower is rotated to the next player and their turn begins.Each territory besides a player's own contains one of three keys—bronze, silver and gold, in that order—needed to unlock the Tower.

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before 900; Old English sc(e) anca; c. Low German schanke leg, thigh shank. A pipe's bowl and shank. Each half of a pair of scissors; also the stem of a wine glass.

Once meant 'the remainder, the rest,' as in 'shank of the evening.'

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Englishschanke, from Old Englishsċeanca, scanca, from Proto-Germanic*skankô (compare West Frisianskonk, Low GermanSchanke, GermanSchenkel(“shank, leg”), Norwegianskank), from *skankaz (compare Old Norseskakkr(“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European*(s)keng- (compare Middle Irishscingim(“I spring”), Ancient Greekσκάζω(skázō, “to limp”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ʃæŋk/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -æŋk

Noun[edit]

shank (pluralshanks)

1. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As you like it:

     His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank […] (II.7)

2. Meat from that part of an animal.
3. (ornithology,colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old Worldwading 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. (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
   • 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:

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

10. (slang) An improvised stabbingweapon; a shiv.
11. A loop forming an eye to a button.
12. (architecture) The space between two channels of the Dorictriglyph.

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13. (metalworking) A large ladle for moltenmetal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
14. (printing,dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
15. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
16. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
17. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
18. The main part or beginning of a period of time.
    • 1945, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, page 92:

      AMANDA: Going now? You're joking! Why, it's only the shank of the evening, Mr. O’Connor!

Synonyms[edit]

(improvised stabbing weapon):shiv(slang)

Derived terms[edit]

• shankbone - the bone of the foreleg

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

shank (third-person singular simple presentshanks, present participleshanking, simple past and past participleshanked)

1. (archaic,Ulster) 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,golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. (transitive, chiefly tennis,soccer) To hit or kick the ball in an unintendeddirection.
   • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

6. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.

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Synonyms[edit]

(to stab with an improvised weapon):shiv(slang)

(to remove another's pants):depants(slang)

Adjective[edit]

shank (comparativeshanker, superlativeshankest)

1. (slang)Bad.

See also[edit]

• (poorly played golf shot):thin, fat, toe

Anagrams[edit]

• Hanks, Naskh, ankhs, hanks, khans