Definition of shinning:
(n) :
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(v) :
To strike with the shin.
(v) :
(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
(n) :
A fishplate for a railway
(v) :
To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
(n) :
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia