meaning of shin
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.
2. A fish plate for rails.
3. 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.
4. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of ones notes at the bank.
5. To climb (a pole, etc. ) by shinning up.
6. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
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