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Definition of Shinnied
1. shinny [v] - See also: shinny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinnied
Literary usage of Shinnied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"... boy shinnied up a pole and smashed a transformer," says the Major, and
adds: "What can you do with children?" Then he turns to Tonder, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"It's dangerous. Some o' th' cargo's loose, an' y'r might get caught yerself.'
"Jimmie didn't wait f'r further orders but shinnied down inter that black hold ..."
3. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1916)
"He must have lost his nerve when he made out your smoke and shinnied up there to
stow away, taking the ship's papers with him. He would have attached some ..."
4. Our Navy in the War with Spain by John Randolph Spears (1898)
"He "shinnied" up a rope to the rail of the Vizcaya, although her plates were red
with the glowing heat, and dragging three terrorized Spaniards from the ..."
5. Our Navy in the War with Spain by John Randolph Spears (1898)
"He "shinnied" up a rope to the rail of the Vizcaya, although her plates were red
with the glowing heat, and dragging three terrorized Spaniards from the ..."
6. Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring by Winifred Hawkridge Dixon (1921)
"Ours twirled his rope, lassoed an overhanging shrub at the top of the ledge, and
shinnied up like a cat, twisted it twice about the shrubs and then around ..."
7. Personal Experiences of a Cub Reporter by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1922)
"... the heads of the authorities, and shoes and hammers made life quite exciting.
Newspapermen who had been standing in -that region shinnied up lamp posts ..."
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