They often have guards

Usage examples of shins.

From under the bench, he began single-tapping knees and shins as the other five defenders dropped to the floor and thus into view.

It barely covered his body, leaving his feet and much of his shins uncovered, but that appeared not to matter much.

His mouth curled as he regarded her, lazed upon the steps, her bare feet and shins exposed, nibbling on her praline.

Juliette started down the path toward the bayou, tripping on her skirts, forcing her to lift them as her stride stretched into a run down the narrow, stone-littered path, tripped over tufts of prickly sedge until her ankles and shins felt as if they had been raked by knife blades.

The back of her ragged skirt had been drawn up between her thighs and tucked into the rope around her waist, revealing her shins that had been scratched by briars and whelped by mosquito bites.

She tripped down the gallery steps and ran hard down the old path, on and on until the path gave way to weeds and bramble that tore at her meager skirts and shins, beyond the crumbling old shanties and storehouses and liveries, beyond the sugar mill virtually lost under the tangle of wild blackberry and honeysuckle vines.

Ducking his head against the downpour, Chantz descended the stairs, sank to his shins in the rising water, and headed for his horse tied under a shed.