Definitions For Shanker

Etymology 1

From {{af, en, shank, -er}}.

Noun

SHANKER (plural SHANKERs) One who shank#verb, shanks (in any of various senses). One who shanks a golf ball. {{quote-text, en, year=1975, author=Blackie Sherrod, title=Scattershooting {{quote-book, en, year=1993, author=Harvey Penick; Bud Shrake; Edwin Shrake, title=And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie, publisher=Simon and Schuster, isbn=9780671871888, page=57 {{quote-book, en, year=2006, author=Butch Harmon, title=The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life, publisher=Crown, isbn=9780307347046 One who glues the shank into a shoe. {{quote-text, en, year=1913, author=Leon Carroll Marshall; Chester Whitney Wright; James Alfred Field, title=Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics, page=202 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press ({{ISBN, 9781933237244}}): : I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, {{...}} Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.

Etymology 2

Noun

SHANKER (plural SHANKERs) {{obsolete form of, en, chancre}}

References

{{R:Webster 1913}}

Anagrams

hankers, harkens