What is the meaning of shank?

noun

• A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg.
• The part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
• Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something.
  • synonyms: stem
• Cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head.
• Cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill.
• The narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole.
  • synonyms: waist
• Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals.
  • synonyms: cannon
• A poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball.

verb

• Hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction. .