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Kern :: Kern (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank..

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

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..

Teuk :: Teuk (n.) The redshank.

Shank :: Shank (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg..

Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Canon :: Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

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..

Longshanks :: Longshanks (n.) The stilt.

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..

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

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

Shank :: Shank (v.) The body of a type.

Shanker :: Shanker (n.) See Chancre.

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

Hardy :: Hardy (n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole..

Redshank :: Redshank (n.) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee..

Clee :: Clee (n.) The redshank.

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

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

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