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)
• part meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• part holonym
• 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
• part holonym
• S: (n) bit (the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press) "he looked around for the right size bit"
• 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)
• 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)