shinbone

[ shin-bohn ]
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noun
  1. the tibia.

Origin of shinbone

1
before 1000; Middle English; Old English scinbān.See shin1, bone

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How to use shinbone in a sentence

  • No, not a vestage of the fossil is there, not a skull, not a shinbone.

    The Book of Khalid | Ameen Rihani

British Dictionary definitions for shinbone

shinbone

/ (ˈʃɪnˌbəʊn) /


noun
  1. the nontechnical name for tibia (def. 1)

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