The phrase "a shank of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a portion or segment of something, often in a culinary context, such as meat.
Example: "The chef prepared a shank of lamb for the special dinner service."
Alternatives: "a piece of" or "a cut of".
Chapter 2: How to make a shank out of a toothbrush, box of matches and disposable razor.
Tell the warden he needn't worry about you building a shank out of your handy-dandy food-flinging spoon – you'd be a damn fool to destroy it and springs have never been good for stabbing people.
"I'll be back with more medicine," the nurse said, and I was left alone to wonder whether it would be more efficient persuading someone to kill me or whittling a shank out of tongue depressors and slitting my own wrists.
It's sort of like when the guard comes by your cell to make sure you're going to sleep and not carving a shank out of a metal spoon or masturbating on your cellmate's head.
Thus, in the present study, we used electrodes with a tip angle of 5 7.5 degree and a shank diameter of 70 μm.
At Troon, Johnston's tournament began on Thursday with what he described as a complete shank of a shot on the fourth hole — "I haven't hit one like that since I was, like, 12" — but he bounced back from that double bogey and shot a two-under 69.
Park brochures explain that alcohol is prohibited on Navajo land, and that Monument Valley is a living landscape, not a frozen shank of scenery, with real people trying to make a living around the valley.
The microneedles are machined from single crystal silicon to a shank height of 250 350 μm with 300 μm center-to-center spacing.
Government supporters, some wielding machetes, kitchen knives and a Cairene version of a shank, attacked scores of foreign journalists.
