shin

IPA: ʃˈɪn

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
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A river in Scotland, in the Highlands

(Britain, as "shin up") 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.
To strike with the shin.
(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

Examples of "shin" in Sentences

Gaudio finished the match with blood trickling down his right shin from a final-set tumble.
Ironically, it is the Japanese phrase shin do fu ji that rings truest for me: human and soil are not two.
Sheeny should not be traced to German shin, a cant word for "miser; base fellow; cheat" (an etymology proposed by a distinguished scholar).
The name is derived from the Gaelic and refers to the town of Cullen in Moray and the word for shin or shank which developed the secondary meaning of soup.
For this stupidity I received a couple of stitches on my left knee, my shin is a giant scab, and my right thigh looks as if someone took a baseball bat to it.
A scar on my shin is from when I pedaled without holding the handlebars and I fell off my red Schwinn with the fat tires, the little straw basket, and the tinkly bell.
Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted and that Akira must become a "shin" - a creature of the shadow world - in order to help restore the balance.
New product is what we call shin kicking, it gets the kids to say to mom "I have to get into Build-A-Bear" and then we need something for mom, whether that's a strong promotion, whether that's a bundling opportunity, whether it's some kind of limited edition.