English Explanatory Dictionary

shin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  2. A fishplate for a railway
verb
  1. To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
  2. To strike with the shin.
  3. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
noun
  1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
name
  1. A river in Scotland, in the Highlands

Pronunciation

/ʃɪn/ en-us-shin.ogg

Word forms

shin shins shinning shinned sheen

Etymology

From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

Synonyms

tibia shinny

Related words

shinbone shin hanga

Derived words

saber shin shinguard shin-kicking shinless shin pad shinplaster shinplate shin splint yellowshins shinny shin out Invershin
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