The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. • Meat from that part of an animal. • A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. • 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, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached. • A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. • The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. • A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.) • An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes. • A loop forming an eye to a button. • The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. • A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. • The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot. • Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. • The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time. • The main part or beginning of a period of time.