Shank vs Dagger - What's the difference?
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(slang) Bad.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
* Shakespeare
Meat from that part of an animal.
A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece of the bit, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
(sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. See thin,fat,toe.
(slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.
Any of several species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that are primarily distinguished by their brightly colored legs.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
(printing, dated) The body of a type.
(shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
(archaic, Ulster) to travel on foot
(slang) to stab, especially with an improvised blade
(slang) to remove another's pants, especially in jest; to depants
(transitive, chiefly, golf, football) to hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction
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To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
(weapon) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
* , Act I, Scene I, line 282.
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 34.
The text character ; the obelus.
As nouns the difference between shank and dagger
is that shank is the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle while dagger is a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.As verbs the difference between shank and dagger
is that shank is to travel on foot while dagger is to pierce with a dagger; to stab.As an adjective shank
is bad.shank
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(en noun)- His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank .
- (Gwilt)
Derived terms
* greenshank * umbroshank * redshank * shank-nag * shank-weary * shankbone - the bone of the foreleg * shanks' nag * shanks' mare * shanks' pony * LongshanksVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.}}
- (Darwin)
Anagrams
*dagger
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Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) dague (1229), related to (etyl), (etyl), (etyl) daga , (etyl) Degen, (etyl) . In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. GrimmGrimmsuspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique'', 1750) thought that French ''dague'' was a derivation from German ''dagge'', ''dagen , although not attested until a much later date). The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca'' in his ''Philippide''. Other Middle Latin forms include ''daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga''http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/DAGGER; the forms with ''-r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word). OED points out that there is also an English verb from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400. Relation to Old Armenian .
Noun
(en noun)- I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; ...
- The dagger , under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.
