shin

shin

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. (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.

   to shin up a mast

2. To strike with the shin.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, BBC:

     The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunts corner.

shin (plural shins)

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.

shin

1. H-system spelling of ?in.

	stinco
	front part of the leg below the knee

arrampicarsi

tibia

Altri significati:

To strike with the shin.

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

(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.

(UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope

The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Traduzione 'veloce'

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