shin
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/ʃɪn/
English
Definitions
noun
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone
- A fishplate for a railway.
verb
- (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”
- To strike with the shin.
- To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
noun
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter)