Crossword-Solution: SHIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shin | n. | The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. |
| Shin | n. | A fish plate for rails. |
| Shin | v. i. | 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. |
| Shin | v. i. | To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. |
| Shin | v. t. | To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHIN | anagram | HISN, HSIN, HSNI, NISH, SINH |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SHIN (5)
But as Thurid’s foot swung so did mine, and I caught him a painful blow upon the shin bone that saved Xodar from this added ignominy.
What does I do? Does I shin aroun’ mongs’ de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill _do_ b’long to, en han’ it over to de right one, all safe en soun’, de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would? No; I take en whack de bill in _two_, en give half un it to you, en de yuther half to de yuther woman.
Now the men that chased Hal Clayton and Bud Dixon away would spread the thing around in a half an hour, and every neighbor that heard it would shin out and fly around from one farm to t’other and try to be the first to tell the news.
Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer camp--the rest o' us'll have our hands full with the salvage.” “Good,” agreed Theriere.
Thereat Crumb-snatcher was enraged and caught up in his strong hand a huge stone that lay upon the ground, a heavy burden for the soil: with that he hit Cabbage-climber below the knee and splintered his whole right shin, hurling him on his back in the dust.
Quotes with SHIN (3)
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
You really shouldn’t have come,” Lord Blackthorne said, his hand slipping across my faceto cup my jaw, fingers brushing my cheek. I shrieked, shrinking back and kicking at my captorwith stocking-covered feet. “Such a pretty child, in such an ugly place. Tell me, do you thinkyour dear husband would mind if I stole a kiss from the bride?” Kicking him in the shin, I spun, making him release me. I climbed off whatever I’d landedon, aiming my palms out and wishing that I could see…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 503 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).