Shank, part of a ship's anchor

Warlord Shank, an evil villain from the TV series Space Cases

Slang for a knife, most commonly an improvised one, or the act of stabbing itself

Shanks' mare, an idiom meaning to walk

Shank (sewing), a sewing-specific shank include button shanks and thread shanks

Sheepshank, a knot used to shorten a rope

Lead shank, a type of lead used for difficult horses

Shank (weapon), a slang for a makeshift knife usually crafted from scrap metal, or (as a verb) the use of such a weapon.

Christopher B. Shank, Maryland politician

Bud Shank (b. 1926), an American saxophonist

Shankh, a quantity in the Indian numbering system

Beef shank, a cut of beef from the lower part of a cow, namely the extremities.

Harvey Shank (b. 1946), Canadian baseball player

Shank (meat), a cut of meat

Shank (biology), a major scaffold protein that interacts indirectly with both NMDA receptors and metabotropic receptors

Shanks, wading birds in the genus Tringa

In ballet, the shank is the part of a pointe shoe used to support the arch of one's foot when dancing en pointe.