shank-nag

English

Verb

shank-nag (third-person singular simple present shank-nag, present participle g, simple past and past participle ed)

1. (idiomatic, archaic) To travel on foot.

Noun

shank-nag (plural shank-nags)

1. (idiomatic) Archaic spelling of shanks' nag.

References

• shank-nag, in A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, by John Christopher Atkinson. J.R. Smith: 1868, p. 442.