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Shinbone

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Noun
  1. 1
    The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
  2. 2
    the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle wordnet
  3. 3
    A segment of an insect's leg.

Etymology

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

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