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Throat :: Throat (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

Burr :: Burr (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.

Canon Bone :: Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse..

Stilted :: Stilt (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer..

Pellile :: Pellile (n.) The redshank; -- so called from its note.

Mousing :: Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out..

Shank :: Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off..

Nick :: Nick (n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Longshanks :: Longshanks (n.) The stilt.

Shin :: Shin (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

Harpoon :: Harpoon (n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun..

Barker :: Barker (n.) The spotted redshank.

Yellowshanks :: Yellowshanks (n.) Alt. of Yellowshin.

Bullen-nail :: Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered..

Kerned :: Kerned (a.) Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

Shank :: Shank (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

Spindle-shanked :: Spindlelegs (n.) A spindleshanks.

Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..

Shanked :: Shanked (a.) Having a shank.

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