shank-nag

English

Verb

shank-nag

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.