shin

  1. Noun.  The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
  2. Verb.  (British) 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.
  3. Verb.  To strike with the shin.
  4. Noun.  The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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