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SHINNED
SHIN
clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
shinned
simple past tense and past participle of shin
Source: Wiktionary
SHIN
Shin, n. Etym: [OE. shine, schine, AS. scina; akin to D. scheen, OHG. scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben. Cf. Chine.]
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. "On his shin." Chaucer.
2. (Railbroad)
Definition: A fish plate for rails. Knight. 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. [imp. & p. p. Shinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Shinning.]
1. 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. [Slang]
2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.
Shin, v. t.
Definition: To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. [Slang]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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