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Shin bone   /ʃɪn boʊn/   Listen
noun
Shin  n.  
1.
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. "On his shin."
2.
(Railbroad) A fish plate for rails.
Shin bone (Anat.), the tibia.
Shin leaf (Bot.), a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.





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"Shin bone" Quotes from Famous Books



... excessive secretion of synovia, they are called windgalls. They form a soft, puffy tumor about the size of a hickory nut, and are most often found in the fore leg, at the upper part of the fetlock joint, between the tendon and the shin bone. When they develop in the hind leg it is not unusual to see them reach the size of a walnut. Occasionally they appear in front of the fetlock on the border of the tendon. The majority of horses are not subject to them after colt-hood has ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... adrift at sea, within a week the wolf stare of hunger would make him and his associates seriously consider casting lots as to who should be eaten. Later the feast might actually begin and ... human nature find it easy enough to gnaw the shin bone of a fellow castaway. This thing we call human nature is a bundle of emotions and desires that will find expression in different ways, according to the environment in which it is located, as we have seen ...
— Socialism and American ideals • William Starr Myers


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