Meanings of skinny shanks in English

But we cannot believe that those skinny shanks are to be immortal.

Whisker Harry would stalk around on his skinny shanks, unhurried, deliberate.

Frogmen ha' skinny shanks, and larks' heels, and holes down their bodies like lamperns.

The old man knelt on his skinny shanks, just as any village elder would.

He waved the youths away from the fire where they huddled warming their skinny shanks, then pointed to the distant scaffolding.

Wading along the shore, robes pulled high up over his skinny shanks, he scared two whiskered bottom-feeders into the shallows and Torvald scooped them up.