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shin guard
noun
, Sports.
- a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shin guard1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
Through the black woods rang the sound of a sword clanging against a steel shin guard.
From Project Gutenberg
The secutor was barely scratched, but his blood trickled down his shin-guard and he was limping.
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