shin

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter sin by having a dot above the right side of the letter.
• noun The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.
• noun The shinbone.
• noun A cut of meat from the lower foreleg of beef cattle.
• intransitive verb To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.
• intransitive verb To kick or hit in the shins.
• intransitive verb To climb something by shinning it.
• intransitive verb To move quickly on foot.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To use the shins in climbing; climb by hugging with arms and legs: with up: as, to shin up a tree.
• To go afoot; walk: as, to shin along; to shin across the field.
• To climb by grasping with the arms and legs and working or pulling one's self up: as, to shin a tree.
• To kick on the shins.
• noun A god, or the gods collectively; spirit, or the spirits; with a capital, the term used by many Protestant missionaries in China, and universally among Protestant Christians in Japan, for the Supreme Being; God. (See kami.) Sometimes the adjective chin, ‘true,’ is prefixed in Chinese. See Shangti and Shinto.
• noun The front part of the human leg from the knee to the ankle, along which the sharp edge of the shin-bone or tibia may be felt beneath the skin.
• noun The shin-bone.
• noun The lower leg; the shank: as, a shin of beef.
• noun In ornithology, the hard or scaly part of the leg of a bird; the shank. See sharp-shinncd.
• noun In entomology, the tibia, or fourth joint of the leg. Also called shank. See cut under coxa.
• noun A fishplate.
• noun An adapted pronunciation of the abbreviation sinh, used as a colloquial substitute for ‘hyperbolic sine.’
• noun The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in sound to the English sh. Its numerical value is 300.
• noun In a modern turning-plow, the lower front corner of the mold-board, next the share and forming part of the cutting edge. It replaces in part the head or sheath of old plows.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
• noun (Railbroad) A fish plate for rails.
• noun (Anat.) the tibia.
• noun (Bot.) a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.
• intransitive verb Slang 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.
• intransitive verb Slang, U.S. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
• transitive verb Slang To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• noun The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
• verb UK 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.
• verb To strike with the shin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• noun the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
• noun the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• noun the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
• noun a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg