SHIN
\ʃˈɪn], \ʃˈɪn], \ʃ_ˈɪ_n]\
Definitions of SHIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
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A fish plate for rails.
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To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
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A fish plate for rails.
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To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The front part of the leg between the ankle and knee; shank.
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To climb by alternate movements of the arms and legs: usually with up.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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