shin

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • 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.
  • To strike with the shin.
  • To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

Origin

  • From Middle English shyn, shine, from Old English scinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

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