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shin

noun

1 shin

The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.

Dutch: scheen, scheenbeen
Polish: goleń, podudzie

2 shin

A cut of meat from the lower part of the leg.

synonym: shin bone.

Polish: golonko, golonka

3 shin

The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

4 shin

The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia.

Dutch: tibia, scheenbeen
Polish: piszczel, kość piszczelowa

verb

1 shin

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.

synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle.

Roget 305: 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.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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