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.]


 shin
      n 1: 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]
      v : climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble,
           shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]
      [also: shinning, shinned]


 shinning
      See shin