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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..

Shankbeer :: Shankbeer (n.) See Schenkbeer.

Spindleshanks :: Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs..

Baybolt :: Baybolt (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..

Redlegs :: Redlegs (n.) The redshank.

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..

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

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..

Redshank :: Redshank (n.) The fieldfare.

Rudderpost :: Rudderpost (n.) The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other..

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

Redshank :: Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs..

Yellowlegs :: Yellowlegs (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2..

Shank :: Shank (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round..

Shank :: Shank (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.

Shake :: Shake (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

Longshanks :: Longshanks (n.) The stilt.

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

Crown :: Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

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