Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like. · To strike with the shin. · To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia · A fishplate for a railway
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
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