shank's mare

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   you own legs

   “I traveled on shank's mare”

   Synonymsshanks' mareshank's ponyshanks' pony

   Broaderleg

Questions about shank's mare

What does shank's mare mean?

shank's mare means "you own legs".

What is another word for shank's mare?

Close synonyms include shanks' mare, shank's pony, shanks' pony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shank's mare a common word?

shank's mare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.