shin
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shin/ʃɪn/
▶noun the front of the leg below the knee.
■ a cut of beef from the lower part of a cow's leg.
▶verb (shins, shinning, shinned) (shin up/down) climb quickly up or down by gripping with one's arms and legs.– origin OE scinu, prob. from a Gmc base meaning ‘narrow or thin piece’.
'shin' also found in these Oxford entries:
bark
- chine
- greave
- osso buco
- shin bone
- shindig
- Shinkansen
- shinny
- shin pad
- shinplaster
- shin splints
- shinty
- sudoku
- tibia
