The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shin \Shin\, n. [OE. shine, schine, AS. scina; akin to D. scheen, OHG. scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben. Cf. Chine.]
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. ``On his shin.''
--Chaucer.-
(Railbroad) A fish plate for rails.
--Knight.Shin bone (Anat.), the tibia.
Shin leaf (Bot.), a perennial ericaceous herb ( Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.
Usage examples of "shin bone".
One of the topmast-men had taken a blast of grape in his leg just below the knee and the limb hung by a taller of flesh and exposed stringy white sinew from which protruded sharp white splinters of the shin bone.
He felt the graze of metal on his shin bone, and then pain exploded in his chest as he landed, shoulder first, in the mud.
Ax blade probably hit the shin bone and skinned along the top of it.
Possible fracture of the right arm, eight inch laceration, deep on the shin bone, from a sled runner.
Flay is rubbing the cracked toe-cap of one of his boots rapidly up and down his shin bone immediately above the ankle, and, this done, Steerpike notices that his legs begin to make their way round the long table towards Fuchsia's chair detonating as they go.
And, when she checked her legs, two bad red bumps on her thigh, one in the left calf and two on the fleshy part of her right leg by the shin bone.