shin
noun
the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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I expect my chaps have shinned up the trees somewhere.
From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Stanley L. Wood