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noun

Shin n.

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."

(Railbroad) A fish plate for rails.

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.

verb

Shin v. t. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. (Slang)

Shin v. i. (past & past part. shinned; pres. part. shinning)

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)

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. (Slang, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Shin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shin" Quotes from Famous Books

... had passed, when the negro was seen to make a start as if some one had given him a kick in the shin. Simultaneously with that start the exclamation ...

— The Ocean Waifs - A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea • Mayne Reid

... quite narrow—so narrow that we were forced to advance very slowly, feeling our way to avoid colliding with the walls. The ground was strewn with fragments of rock, and a hasty step meant an almost certain fall and a bruised shin. It was tedious ...

— Under the Andes • Rex Stout

... of Mr. Polly's fingers gave, and he hit his chin against the stones and slipped clumsily to the ground again, scraping his cheek against the wall and hurting his shin against the log by which he had reached the top. Just for a moment ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

... pushed me off de step an' say if I didn' dance he gwine shoot my toes off. Skeered as I was, I sho done some shufflin'. Den he give me five dollers an' tole me to go buy jim cracks, but dat piece of paper won't no good. 'Twuzn nothin' but a shin plaster like all dat war ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

... detail, and personally led the bold attack. He himself was among the most severely wounded; besides a blow on his head, he received a sabre wound on the left thigh, another by a pike in his right thigh, and a contusion on the shin-bone by grape-shot; one of his fingers was badly cut, and he ...

— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston

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