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Meanings of shankbone in inglés

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The larger and stronger of the two bones below the knee of the leg of a biped or hind limb of quadruped.

        Usage of shankbone in inglés
        1
        Well, if this was a field of battle, I should say 'twas the shankbone of a man; no more, no less.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
        2
        For Starkad excellently judged the man's deserts, and bestowed a shankbone for the piper to pipe on, requiting his soft service with a hard fee.
        The Danish History, Books I-IX
        Shankbone through the time