At the butcher's, carnivores may ask for a shank of lamb. From LearnThat.org.
Prep time is nothing, I use the lower calf muscles and shank from the deer. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Game dishes] Reference
A shank is an added piece that is useful in some garments, but uncomfortable in others. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
In some parts of the country, the upper part of the shank is called the chamorro, but this term is more frequently applied to pork. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef] Reference
They stabbed a guard 15 times with a homemade device commonly known as a shank with reinforced wire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2006] Reference
On the day before, he -- they discovered what's commonly called a shank and it was located in his sock. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2005] Reference
And don't miss the New Zealand lamb shank, which is slowly braised with an assortment of dried fruits and root vegetables. From Wordnik.com. Reference
BOSWELL: It was a homemade knife-type device called a shank that, a lot of times, inmates in a constructional setting will create. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2006] Reference
The rear shank is called the chambarete de pata. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef] Reference
Drills with bigger diameter have a taper shank which is to be inserted in the taper hole of the sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [7. Drilling with the drill and boring with the boring tool (turning tool)] Reference
It just started naturally, trying to get a couple practice strokes in so I didn't "shank" one. From Wordnik.com. [Outside Magazine Gear Reviews] Reference
"shank" their opponents with such makeshift weapons while racing neck-and-neck on the course. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Boil the shank four or five hours in water, enough to cover it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
Cut off the shank of a leg of veal, and cut gashes in the remainder. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
The regulation stage shoe has a very flexible shank and a French heel. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Screwdrivers vary in size, the shank ranging in length from 2-1/2 "to 18". From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
There's bourbon, a shank on the wall, animal's heads on the wall he's killed. From Wordnik.com. [Day One of Eventually Discarded NaNoWriMo Writing Attempt] Reference
Next to the blade on the end of which is the cutting edge, is the shank, Fig. 65. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Another stabbed his own attorney with a metal shank he'd smuggled into the courthouse. From Wordnik.com. [Battling The Aryan Brothers] Reference
In shape it is like a small spade, about two and a half inches wide, with a square shank. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Serıously, I may have to make a shank specıfıcally for these small and narrow streets. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
"Consider bananas," he says, over a lunch of lamb shank and Bordeaux in the INRA cafeteria. From Wordnik.com. [Like Father, Unlike Son] Reference
Take them from small but well fatted animals, cut off the shank, also part of the top round. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
It is necessary to wind writing paper around the shank, as in the leg, provided you wish to handle it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
The best kind of meat for mince pies is neat's tongue and feet -- the shank of beef makes very good pies. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
The shank of beef is the best part for soup -- cold roast beef bones, and beef steak, make very good soup. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
If sharpened from the upper side, that is, the side toward the shank, the nibs will tend to become shorter. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
It was the long shank bone of an ox, polished till it was as white as ivory, and carved in quaint patterns. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
He started to cast off the shank-painter of the second anchor, when Bill Blunt's hoarse bellow pealed from aft. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
For a main dish, I was quite pleased with the Pappardelle -- wide pasta ribbons with slow cooked veal shank ragu. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Chan: I Left My Heart in San Francisco: Where to Eat, Stay and Play in San Francisco and Napa Valley] Reference
The recipe for pasta with braised lamb shank and fontina is as easy to follow as the one for kiwi-tangerine popsicles. From Wordnik.com. [KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID] Reference
This shield can be made from a small piece of metal tubing, broached out to fit loosely over the shank and point of the drill. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
I imagined him talking into the hollow blackness, listening to the echo of his own voice as it reverberated down through the steel shank. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Taloqan] Reference
She is putting the wires in her shank, pressing on her pedal there, and it actually crimps that wire into the shank and locks it in there. From Wordnik.com. [KitchenAid Mixers Still Proudly American] Reference
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