Noun

• S: (n) shank (a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg)
• S: (n) shank (the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle)
• S: (n) shank, stem (cylinder forming a long narrow part of something)
• S: (n) shank (cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head)
• S: (n) shank (cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) cylinder (a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line)
• S: (n) round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)
• S: (n) shape, form (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance) "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• part holonym
• S: (n) shank, waist (the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole)
• S: (n) cannon, shank (lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals)
• part meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• part holonym
• S: (n) shank (a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) shank (hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction)