Shinning

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shin \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]


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as
        for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.]
        --Bartlett.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shinning
       See {shin}