shanking

How to use shanking in a sentence

• Now, he disliked going out at nights, and consequently was in the habit of "scrimp-shanking," and proceeded forthwith to go lame.

  Three years in France with the Guns: | C. A. Rose

• The next process is that of shanking, or attaching small metal loops, by which they are fastened to garments.

  The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 | Various