Meaning

1 senses
  1. An inferior variant of the sheepshank knot, which is useful for shortening a rope or taking up slack.

Origin

From dog + shank.

From dog + shank.

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Forms

plural: dogshanks
Singulardogshank
Pluraldogshanks

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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