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

Redshank :: Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs..

Fork :: Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything..

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

Crus :: Crus (n.) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank..

Shank :: Shank (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.

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

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

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..

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

Shank :: Shank (v.) The body of a type.

Kerned :: Kerned (a.) Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

Shank :: Shank (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.

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

Pellile :: Pellile (n.) The redshank; -- so called from its note.

Shank :: Shank (n.) See Chank.

Butteris :: Butteris (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

Canon Bone :: Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse..

Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..

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