shank
noun
[ ʃaŋk ]
• a person's leg, especially the part from the knee to the ankle.
• "the old man's thin, bony shanks showed through his trousers"
• a long, narrow part of a tool connecting the handle to the operational end.
• "gouges vary in the amount of curve or sweep on the cutting edge and the form of the shank"
• a part or appendage by which something is attached to something else, especially a wire loop attached to the back of a button.
• the narrow middle of the sole of a shoe.
• "a rigid leather boot with a full shank"
• a makeshift knife fashioned from a sharp item such as broken glass or a razor.
• "he used a shank to threaten a guard and steal his uniform"
• an act of striking the ball with the heel of the club.
• "he hit a shank with his tee shot and took double bogey"
shank
verb
• strike (the ball) with the heel of the club.
• "I shanked a shot and hit a person on a shoulder"
• slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife.
• "I got shanked with a broken bottle"
Origin:
Old English sceanca, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schenk ‘leg bone’ and German Schenkel ‘thigh’. The use of the verb as a golfing term dates from the 1920s.
