Meaning

noun a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg

noun the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

noun cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

originInherited from Middle English sceonke, schank, schanke, shanke, schonke, sconke, sschanke, from Old English sċanca, sċeanca, sċeonca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (“shank; thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp; to tilt”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skonk (“leg”), Dutch schenkel (“shank”), German and Luxembourgish Schenkel…

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