subs. (venery).—‘A little Scab or Pox on the Nut or Glans of the Yard.’ (B. E.).

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  c. 1660.  Old Ballad, ‘An Historical Ballad’ [Ane Pleasant Garden (c. 1800)]. And a SHANKER’S a damn’d loveing thing where it seizes.

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  1731.  SWIFT, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed.

        With gentlest touch she next explores
Her SHANKERS, issues, running sores.

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  1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 491.

        But Ajax gave him two such spankers,
They smarted worse than nodes and SHANKERS.

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