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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shinbone
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shinbone was broken, twisted - as was the ulna in one arm, and several ribs.
▪ Baxter's right shinbone was broken after a clash with Rapide Vienna's tough centre-half Skocik.
Wiktionary
shinbone

n. (context anatomy English) The tibia.

WordNet
shinbone

n. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: tibia, shin]

Usage examples of "shinbone".

Woolyan picked out the fine shinbone of a big dingo, and she rubbed it with sand from the bed of the creek until it was white and smooth, and she hid it in her hair, awaiting the time when she could catch Krubi alone.

They suggested carving the shinbones, the fibulas of this human product I am, shaping the bones and grafting them to build me, build the product, a new jawbone.

They lifted him into the coffin, but he was too tall for the box and so the Sergeant took a musket from one of his men and smashed the butt down, sweating and grunting, smashed again, and the broken shinbones let the legs be forced inside.

To make you a jawbone, the surgeons will break off parts of your shinbones, complete with the attached artery.

And when I see Coots come around Shinbone Cut, I'll go over to the hotel and have a few words with the boss.

On Gladiator Island, Pitt shoots off the tip of his ear, smashes and breaks his shinbone with a floor lamp, then crushes his windpipe with the soles of his shoes, killing him.