shanker

From shank +‎ -er.

shanker (plural shankers)

1. One who shanks (in any of various senses).
   1. One who shanks a golf ball.
      • 1975, Blackie Sherrod, Scattershooting:

        Littler said he didn't shank it; rather he called it a soft pop-up, but us old hard-core shankers weren't so generous .

      • 1993, Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake, And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:

        He said, "Our whole club is full of shankers." […] This club was infested with shankers, as if they all had a disease. […] The danger in hitting down on the ball with such intensity is that you are likely to shank it.

      • 2006, Butch Harmon, The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life, Crown, →ISBN:

        And for the next twenty minutes, he shanked every shot. I did everything I could. […] And he still shanked every shot. […] “Sooooo, Butchie's got a shanker and can't get him squared up, huh?” he shouted so loud that ..."

   2. One who glues the shank into a shoe.
      • 1913, Leon Carroll Marshall, Chester Whitney Wright, James Alfred Field, Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics, page 202:

        A shank-cutter cuts with a die that part of the shank which is composed of leather or leather board. […] A shanker tacks the shank in place, cuts away the superfluous upper leather gathered under the toe, beats the edge of the upper out […]

      • 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" , quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (→ISBN):

        I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.

shanker (plural shankers)

1. Obsolete form of chancre.

• “shanker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• hankers, harkens