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1.NounThe front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia"Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins."
2.NounA fishplate for a railway
3.VerbTo climb up or lower oneself down 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 shin up a mast"
4.VerbTo strike with the shin.
5.VerbTo run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
6.NounThe twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia