Shank vs. Calf — What's the Difference?

A person's leg, especially the part from the knee to the ankle

A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and hide.

A long, narrow part of a tool connecting the handle to the operational end

A young cow or bull.

A part or appendage by which something is attached to something else, especially a wire loop attached to the back of a button.

One of the young of certain other mammals, such as moose, elephants, or whales.

The narrow middle of the sole of a shoe

Calfskin leather.

A makeshift knife fashioned from a sharp item such as broken glass or a razor

A large floating chunk of ice split off from a glacier, iceberg, or floe.

An act of striking the ball with the heel of the club

An awkward, callow youth.

Strike (the ball) with the heel of the club

The fleshy muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

Slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife

A young cow or bull.

The part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

A corresponding part in other vertebrates.

A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe also used of some other animals.

The whole leg of a human.

A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

A leg or leglike part.

A small island, near a larger island.

A cut of meat from the leg of a steer, calf, sheep, or lamb.

A cabless railroad engine.

The long narrow part of a nail or pin.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

A stem, stalk, or similar part.

(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.

(Nautical) The stem of an anchor.

The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

The long shaft of a fishhook.

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

The part of a tobacco pipe between the bowl and stem.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

The shaft of a key.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

The narrow section of the handle of a spoon.

A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.

(Printing) The section of a body of type between the shoulder and the foot.

A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.

The narrow part of the sole of a shoe under the instep.

The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

A piece of material, such as metal, that is used to reinforce or shape this part of a shoe.

Young of domestic cattle

A projection, such as a ring, on the back of a button by which it is sewn to cloth.

The muscular back part of the shank

See tang1.

Fine leather from the skin of a calf

The part of a tool, such as a drill, that connects the functioning head to the handle.

Young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo

The latter or remaining part, especially of a period of time.

The early or primary part of a period of time

(Slang) A knife or other sharp, pointed implement, especially one that has been fashioned from something else; a shiv.

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

(Slang) To stab (a person) with a sharp, pointed implement.

The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.

Meat from that part of an animal.

A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.

A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.

The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.

The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.

A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.

The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.

(golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.

(slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.

A loop forming an eye to a button.

(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.

The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.

(shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.

The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.

The main part or beginning of a period of time.

To travel on foot.

(slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.

(slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.

To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.

To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.

(intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.

To provide (a button) with a shank loop forming an eye.

(shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.

(slang) Bad.

See Chank.

The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.

Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.

The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.

The body of a type.

The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.

A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; - called also shanks.

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.

To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; - usually followed by off.

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

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

Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

A poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball

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