Shin

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Shin, n. [OE. shine, schine, AS. scina; akin to D. scheen, OHG. scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben. Cf. Chine.].

•  The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fish plate for rails.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]

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, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.  Bartlett.  [1913 Webster]

Shin, v. t. 

 To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Shin, n. & v.
--n.
1 the front of the leg below the knee.
2 a cut of beef from the lower foreleg.
--v.tr. & (usu. foll. by up, down) intr. (shinned, shinning) climb quickly by clinging with the arms and legs.

Idiom

shin-bone = TIBIA. shin-pad (or -guard) a protective pad for the shins, worn when playing football etc.

Etymology

OE sinu

THESAURUS

Shin

ankle, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, clamber, clamber up, climb, climb over, climb up, cnemis, dash, drumstick, escalade, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock, jamb, knee, leg, limb, mount, podite, popliteal space, ramp, run, scale, scale the heights, scamper, scissor-legs, scoot, scrabble up, scramble up, scurry, shank, shin up, shinny, sprint, stems, struggle up, stumps, surmount, tarsus, trotters, upclimb

ROGET THESAURUS

Shin

Ascent

VB ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up, aspire, climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount, shin, shinny, shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise, elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower, soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards, hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge, leap.