noun a fish plate for rails.
2. shin ·vt to climb (a pole, ·etc.) by shinning up.
3. shin ·vi to run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
4. shin ·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.
5. shin ·vi 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.