shanked

• IPA^(key): /ʃæŋkt/
  • (æ-raising) IPA^(key): [ʃeɪŋkt]
• Rhymes: -æŋkt

shanked

1. simple past and past participle of shank

shanked (not comparable)

1. Having a shank.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     'It is the top of a pearl boot button undoubtedly, I should say,' pronounced the sergeant. 'One of those metal-shanked things that they wire into the boot nowadays. […] '

2. (botany) Affected with disease of the shank or footstalk
   • 1904, William Robinson, The Garden:

     Your Muscat Grapes are both shanked and scalded ; the latter can be easily remedied, but the former is more difficult.