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# shank

«shank» in Mova's school dictionary: **the lower part of a leg, between the knee and the ankle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (shank, shanks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The shank is the lower part of a leg, between the knee and the ankle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#m1)

2) A shank is a cut of meat from that part of an animal's leg, such as a lamb shank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#m2)

3) (old use, in fairy tales) A «Bony-shanks» is a thin, bony-legged creature, a sort of witch or giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

used in tales for a leg or a leg of meat; in old stories a name for a witch with thin, bony legs; in cooking a cut of meat from the lower leg

### examples

- The knight hurt his shank when he fell from the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#x1)
- Mum cooked a lamb shank with carrots for supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#x2)
- The old woman was called Bony-shanks because her legs were so thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shank» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shank/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.