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Climbed monkey-style
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shinned
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Shin \Shin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shinning .] To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast. [Slang] ...
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vb. (en-past of: shin )
Usage examples of shinned.
Immediately he shouted something in Chinese and his men broke off battle, shinned like rats down the side into the sampans, and fled.
They made a cradle and shinned down the cliff with a skill that Blackthorne had never seen ashore.
He shinned up the rope, squeezed through the slit, and disappeared inside.
In a hurry, he shinned up the companionway, ran across the main deck up onto the quarterdeck where Rodrigues was talking to Mariko.
Grasping the lowest branch, he scurried inwards then shinned up higher and higher and crept out along a limb.