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Shinned

Shin \Shin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Shinning.]

  1. 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]

  2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.]
    --Bartlett.

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shinned

vb. (en-past of: shin)

WordNet
shin

  1. v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]

  2. [also: shinning, shinned]

shin

  1. n. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

  2. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg

  3. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

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

  5. [also: shinning, shinned]

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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.