Whin vs Shin - What's the difference?
whin | shin |
Gorse; furze.
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* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), , 1995, Canongate Books,
The plant woad-waxen.
Whinstone.
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
A fishplate for a railway.
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.
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(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
As nouns the difference between whin and shin
is that whin is gorse; furze while shin is the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.As a verb shin is
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.whin
English
Noun
(en noun)page 65,
- By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins , and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
page 38,
- And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
- (Gray)
Derived terms
* moor whin * petty whin * whin bruiser * whin sparrow * whin thrush (Webster 1913)shin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* tibiaVerb
(shinn)- to shin up a mast
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- (Bartlett)