Definitions
a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English sceonke, schank, schanke, shanke, schonke, sconke, sschanke, from Old English sċanca, sċeanca, sċeonca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (“shank; thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp; to tilt”).
Used in a sentence
“Edward I of England was nicknamed Edward Longshanks.”
“His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank […]”
“This twist drill has a reduced shank so that it can be used even in a small chuck.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Lower leg part”5 letters
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