shank vs slice

To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction. 

To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. 

To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off. 

To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants. 

To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye). 

To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it. 

To stab, especially with an improvised blade. 

The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point. 

A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. 

A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. 

A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. 

The main part or beginning of a period of time. 

Meat from that part of an animal. 

The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck. 

An improvised stabbing weapon. 

The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. 

The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. 

The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time. 

A loop forming an eye to a button. 

The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached. 

A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached. 

A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem. 

The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. 

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. 

To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high. 

To cut into slices. 

To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). 

To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. 

To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke. 

To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. 

To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce. 

To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards. 

A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) 

A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle. 

A contiguous portion of an array. 

A removable sliding bottom to a galley. 

A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. 

That which is thin and broad. 

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. 

A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw 

A thin, broad piece cut off. 

A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. 

Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. 

A salver, platter, or tray. 

A broad, thin piece of plaster. 

An amount of anything. 

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. 

A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.