Butcher's cut

Usage examples of shank.

Bidgup passed a firm green stick through the shanks of the kangaroo, then, with the help of Meedo, they lifted it onto a limb of a banksia tree.

The three-legged man was a tall, meek-looking person, who had bedizened himself with gorgeous garments, a great feather, and a sword so long and broad, that it differed little in size from the very thin and stiff shanks between which it wandered uncomfortably.

At a work-bench, repairing a burnishing tool, stood Fuscule: a tall man, very thin, all elbows, knees and long spare shanks.

With the purpose of covering up her act and dissembling the woman sat down, and the shank of the wood was pushed through the posterior wall of the vagina into the peritoneal cavity.

Open and 1976 British Open champion, once shanked a nine-iron and spent the rest of the year thinking he would do it again every time he used a short iron.

They were big men of various ages--some in straight Chinese dress, several in uniforms with the green tab and chop of the Shanking army.

He knew--and the Black Abbot knew he knew it--that the same spy who had reported his passing the Shanking Ta Hung Men---the Great Red Gate--might as easily as not have been given an order to kill him as soon as he entered the city.

Society of the Patriotic Harmony Fist--the I Ho Huan, otherwise, the Boxers--had been gaining strength here in Shanking lately.

Stone Jewel Castle who came running to the headquarters of the Shanking Boxers along toward midnight with word that the Black Abbot had taken Shadak Khan captive and was about to cut off his nose and gouge out his eyes.

Practically all of the rickshaws in Shanking now had rifle-barrels for axles.

Probably the same one that will sometimes slip up outside my cabin window in the hollow squeaking shank of a strung-out night to suddenly squawl me up out of my swivel chair three feet in the air then disappear into the swamp with yips of ornery delight.

Before Corunna stood Lieutenant Strope, though Marvin was able to see nothing of him save a pair of thin shanks protruding from abbreviated duck trousers.

They had been cut off just below the knees and, unhemmed, hung flapping with every step he took above a stretch of white-socked, spindly shanks.

The ceiling was festooned with chamber pots, lavatory seats, Victorian enema pumps, soil-glaze drainpipes, grease traps, earthenware urinals, calking tools, spanners, closet hoppers, faucets, tack moulds, basin wrenches, yarning chisels, a very old thawing steamer, bibcocks, a jerking shank and numerous blowtorches with assorted ends.

Anthony had decided to make osso buco in bianco, or tomatoless braised veal shanks.