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Shin
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- 1 A river in Scotland, in the Highlands
- 1 The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
"Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins."
- 2 The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 3 the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle wordnet
- 4 A fishplate for a railway
- 5 the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle wordnet
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- 6 the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
- 7 a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg wordnet
- 1 To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
"to shin up a mast"
- 2 climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling wordnet
- 3 To strike with the shin.
"The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner."
- 4 To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment. US, slang
"The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take."
Etymology
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
From Scottish Gaelic abhainn Sin.
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