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Shinning

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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shinning

vb. (present participle of shin English)

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]

shinning

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Usage examples of "shinning".

Rex gave them a moment before shinning down the metal ladder, slamming shut the door and engaging the anti-theft devices.

The rest was given over to shinning up the scaffold on the old house, whence they leaned over showing their underwear, or in most cases their lack of it, while they whistled at passing women.

Then I was shutting the door, shinning up the rope, and drawing it after me.