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Webster 1913 Edition


Shin

Shin

,
Noun.
[OE.
shine
,
schine
, AS. scina; akin to D.
scheen
, OHG.
scina
, G.
schiene
,
schien
bein, Dan.
skinne
been, Sw.
sken
ben. Cf.
Chine
.]
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.

Shin

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Shinned
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Shinning
.]
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.

Shin

,
Verb.
T.
To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
[Slang]

Webster 1828 Edition


Shin

SHIN

,
Noun.
The fore part of the leg, particularly of the human leg; the fore part of the crural bone, called tibia. This bone being only covered by the skin, may be named for that circumstance; skin-bone; or it may be formed from the root of chine, edge.

Definition 2024


Shin

Shin

See also: shin and shin-

English

Proper noun

Shin

  1. A river in Scotland, in the Highlands

Japanese

Romanization

Shin

  1. rōmaji reading of しん

shin

shin

See also: Shin and shin-

English

Noun

shin (plural shins)

  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
  2. A fishplate for a railway.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
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Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

  1. (Britain, as "shin up") 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.
    to shin up a mast
  2. To strike with the shin.
    • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC:
      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. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

shin (plural shins)

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

Pronoun

shin

  1. H-system spelling of ŝin

Hausa

Noun

shin f

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ش

Irish

Pronoun

shin

  1. Lenited form of sin.

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sin shin
after an, tsin
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

  1. rōmaji reading of しん

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

  1. (personal pronoun) we, us