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sheep-shank (n.)
also
sheepshank
, 1670s, "leg of a sheep," from
sheep
+
shank
(n.). A type of something lank, slender, or weak. Attested earlier in transferred sense of "type of sailor's knot used to shorten a rope without cutting it" (1620s).
