Shin
[ʃɪn]
Definition
(noun.) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
(noun.) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
(noun.) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg.
Typist: Nora--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A fish plate for rails.
(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.
(v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
(v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Checked by Andrew
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spine, fore part of the leg.
Inputed by Jill
Definition
n. a god or the gods: the term used by Protestant missionaries in Japan and China for the Supreme Being.
n. the large bone of the leg or the forepart of it: a bird's shank.—v.i. to climb a tree (with up): to tramp trudge.—v.t. to climb a tree by swarming up it: to kick on the shins.—ns. Shin′-bone the tibia; Shin′-piece a piece of armour defending the forepart of the leg; Shin′-plas′ter (U.S.) a patch of brown-paper steeped in vinegar &c. laid on a sore: a small paper note or promise to pay.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But as Thurid's foot swung so did mine, and I caught him a painful blow upon the shin bone that saved Xodar from this added ignominy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- My hand went in and my knee was down on my shin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He'll brak his shins agean some o' yer pots, and tables, and stuff. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I kicked his shins and got my left knee into his groin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then he threw himself down into the chair opposite, and drew up his knees until his fingers clasped round his long, thin shins. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is the same before a fire, the heat of which sooner penetrates black stockings than white ones, and so is apt sooner to burn a man's shins. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The earliest way to get upward from the ground was that adopted by climbing animals in clambering up tree trunks, and by man himself in shinning up trees by aid of his arms and legs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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