Hyphenation of shanks

Are you trying to hyphenate shanks? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

shanks

Definitions of shanks:

1.	A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
2.	The part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
3.	Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
4.	Cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
5.	Cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
6.	The narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
7.	Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
8.	A poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
9.	Hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.