shin

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I had got my feet mixed and was trying to hold my left wrist against my right shin, which is exceedingly difficult.

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  1. noun The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.
  2. noun The shinbone.
  3. noun The lower foreleg in beef cattle. Used of cuts of meat.

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  • You pled not guilty then, too A pretty, brown-eyed woman scrunched on a chair with a bandage on her shin was the only occupant of Clown Alley when David ducked inside the flap. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Geno kicked him hard on the shin, a blow that nearly sent both Gary and Kelsey tumbling to the ground. —  The Woods Out Back
  • She'd said it with a straight face too, and, honest to Pete, it didn't matter that his shin was still stinging from her wallop of a kick; he still felt like laughing. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 2 - One Pink Rose
  • She remembered the ride through the long hills, making love in the grass in the shadow of Jiang-shin, the Mother of Mountains, wearing her dress of white silk on the day of the wedding in the White Palace of Pechuin Stop it!' —  David A
  • Before he could turn the knife in my direction I drove my heel into his shin, and when he doubled over in agony I kicked him in the jaw with impact enough to drive it right through his skull, and down he went. —  The Luxembourg Run
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English shine, from Old English scinu; see skei- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Hebrew šîn, of Phoenician origin; see šnn in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Middle English shinne, schynne, shine, shyne, schine, schene, scine (plural shinnes, shines), from Anglo-Saxon scina, scyne, shin (scin-bān, shin-bone), = Middle Dutch schene, Dutch scheen = Middle Low German schene, shin, shin-bone, = Old High German scina, scena, sciena, Middle High German schine, schin, German schiene, a narrow slice of metal or wood, a splint, iron band, in Old High German also a needle, prickle (Middle High German schinebein, German schienbein, shin-bone), = Swedish skena, a plate, streak, tire (sken-ben, shin-bone), = Danish skinne, a splint, band, tire, rail (skinne-been, shin-bone); orig. apparently a thin piece, a splint of bone or metallurgy Hence (from Old High German) Italian schiena, the backbone, = Spanish esquena, spine of fishes, = Provencal esquina, esquena = Old French eschine, French échine, the backbone, the chine; Italian schiniera, a leg-piece: see chine, which is thus a doublet of shin. Perhaps akin to skin: see skin.
  2. from shin, n.
  3. Hebrew Aram. Syriac Arabic shīn.
 

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