shin

noun

1. 1

   The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

2. 2

   A fishplate for a railway

verb

1. 1

   To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   to shin up a mast

   "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

2. 2

   To strike with the shin.

   The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

3. 3

   slangTo run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

   The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

noun

1. 1

   The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Forms

plural

shins

past tense

shinned

past participle

shinned

present participle

shinning

third person singular

shins