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. Source: opted

2. n. A fish plate for rails. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. v. i. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. Source: opted

5. v. t. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. Source: opted

6. n. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle Source: wordnet

7. n. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg Source: wordnet

8. n. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet Source: wordnet

9. n. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle Source: wordnet

10. v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling Source: wordnet

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] Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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