2. Verb. (third-person singular of shank) ¹
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Definition of Shanks
1. shank [v] - See also: shank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanks
Literary usage of Shanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"There is an allegation that shanks, while acting as executor of the will of
Johnston, about the time the deed of trust was made by Brown to Klein, ..."
2. Longer Plays by Modern Authors [American] by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"shanks. Where air you from now? SAM. Vicksburg — but I left there two days ...
shanks. You mean — they buried him? SAM. We fetched his body home on our boat ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Thomas Small-shanks. Good father, let him leave this thundering, ... William
Small-shanks. My father, right: I knew you could not hold Out long with a woman ..."
4. Press Reference Library by International News Service (1915)
"An interesting phase of Mr. shanks' operation of the Rio Plata property was his
acquaintance with General Pasquale Orozco, ..."
5. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"SHORT TAPER shanks Sockets and sleeves are furnished, made with the outside taper
to fit the regular taper of spindles of drill presses; the inner tac« ..."
6. Celebrated Trials by Henry Lauren Clinton (1897)
"CHAPTER XXXIV CASE OF WILLIAM FO shanks City Editor of the New York Tribune. ...
ON the 22d day of October, 1873, William FG shanks, City Editor of the New ..."
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