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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

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.

To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak.

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. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

The redshank.

ar 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. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in nava…

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.

fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. -- Double letter. (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

e; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists. Shak.

An instrument consisting 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.

A framework, or a sy Framing chisel (Carp.), a heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.

To attach (a fishhook) to a line or snell, as by knotting the line around the shank of the hook.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

elin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other e…

The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.

er garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

A cleft or division. Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.

A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank.