No sooner had the butler left the room than Old Rody picked up the goose by, its shanks and took his stand behind the door.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
These he throws out on the loch, and hence its name Loch Lurgan, 'Lake of the shanks.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Skin of dorsum and ventral surfaces of forelimbs and shanks smooth; that of belly and ventral surfaces of thighs granular.
"A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla"
William E. Duellman