[ʃaŋk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person's leg, especially the part from the knee to the ankle
(e.g: 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
(e.g: 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
(e.g: a rigid leather boot with a full shank)

- a makeshift knife fashioned from a sharp item such as broken glass or a razor
(e.g: he used a shank to threaten a guard and steal his uniform)

- an act of striking the ball with the heel of the club
(e.g: he hit a shank with his tee shot and took double bogey)


Phrases:

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

[ʃaŋk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- strike (the ball) with the heel of the club
(e.g: I shanked a shot and hit a person on a shoulder)

- slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife
(e.g: I got shanked with a broken bottle)


Phrases:

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