Thesaurus: shin

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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. n. A fish plate for rails.
3. 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.
4. v. i. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
5. v. t. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
6. n. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
7. n. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
8. n. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
9. n. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
10. v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
11. 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." Chaucer. 2. (Railbroad) A fish plate for rails. Knight. 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. 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. [Slang] 2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. [Slang]
12. A fish plate for rails. Knight. 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 whiteflowers.