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Definition of Shin

1. Verb. Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.

2. Noun. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.

3. Noun. A cut of meat from the lower part of the leg.

4. Noun. The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

5. Noun. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

Definition of Shin

1. 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.

2. v. i. 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.

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

Definition of Shin

1. Noun. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. ¹

2. Verb. (British) 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. ¹

3. Verb. To strike with the shin. ¹

4. Noun. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shin

1. to climb by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs [v SHINNED, SHINNING, SHINS]

Medical Definition of Shin

1. 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. 2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. Origin: Shinned; Shinning. 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." 2. A fish plate for rails. Shin bone, the tibia. Shin leaf, a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers. Origin: OE. Shine, schine, AS. Scina; akin to D. Scheen, OHG. Scina, G. Schiene, schienbein, Dan. Skinnebeen, Sw. Skenben. Cf. Chine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shin

shimmers shimmery shimmey shimmeys shimmied shimmies shimming shimmy shimmy-shammy shimmy on down

shimmying shimpan shimpan bucho shimpan fukubucho shims shin (current term) shin-splints shin bone shin guard shin pad

shin pads shin splint shin splints shinanigan shinanigans shinbone shinbones shindesi shindesi kensa

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