shank

n 1: a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the

upper part of the leg

2: the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

3: the long narrow part of something [syn: {stem}]

4: the part of a bolt between the thread and the head

5: the round part of the bit by which it is held in the drill

6: the part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part

of the sole [syn: {waist}]

7: lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock

in hoofed mammals [syn: {cannon}]