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Definition of Shanking
1. shank [v] - See also: shank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanking
Literary usage of Shanking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1916)
"shanking Out. Thinning and smoothing the shank part of the shoe. Size. The length
measure of the shoe on standard widths. The length is expressed by numbers ..."
2. Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture by Charles R. Baker (1866)
"... THE FRUIT AND FLOWER—THE ROSE-BCG, shanking. § 1. — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
THE diseases of plants have never received the attention which they deserve. ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"shanking: ITS CAUSE AND CURE. HANKING, like many other so-called diseases, is
not a disease at all, it is merely a reminder—and not always a gentle one—on ..."
4. Vines and Vine Culture by Archibald Farquharson Barron (1892)
"shanking.—Of all the perplexing maladies that affect Grapes, ... The term shanking
is applied to denote the drying or withering-up of the stalks of the ..."
5. The Steel Foundry by John Howe Hall (1914)
"In small Bessemer foundries (and to some extent in small electric furnace work),
the relative advantages of "shanking from the vessel" and "shanking from a ..."
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