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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shin \Shin\, noun [OE. shine, schine, AS. scina; akin to D. scheen, OHG. scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben. Cf. {Chine}.]
1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. ''On his shin.'' --Chaucer.
2. (Railbroad) A fish plate for rails. --Knight.
{Shin bone} (Anat.), the tibia.
{Shin leaf} (Bot.), a perennial ericaceous herb ({Pyrola elliptica}) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shin \Shin\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shinning}.]
1. To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast. [Slang]
2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] --Bartlett.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shin \Shin\, verb (used with an object) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shin
noun
1: the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
2: a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
3: the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
4: the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: {tibia}, {shinbone}]
verb: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {clamber}, {scramble}, {shinny}, {skin}, {struggle}, {sputter}] [also: {shinning}, {shinned}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "shin": ankle, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, clamber, clamber up, climb, climb over, climb up, cnemis, dash, drumstick, escalade, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock, jamb, knee, leg, limb, mount, podite, popliteal space, ramp, run, scale, scale the heights, scamper, scissor-legs, scoot, scrabble up, scramble up, scurry, shank, shin up, shinny, sprint, stems, struggle up, stumps, surmount, tarsus, trotters, upclimb
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