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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..

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

Shank :: Shank (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it..

Redlegs :: Redlegs (n.) The redshank.

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..

Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

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..

Spindle-shaped :: Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt..

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..

Shankbeer :: Shankbeer (n.) See Schenkbeer.

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

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

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

Longshanks :: Longshanks (n.) The stilt.

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

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

Nut :: Nut (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place..

Beard :: Beard (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

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

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..

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