Definitions for shinbone

shinbone shin·bone

Spelling: [shin-bohn]
IPA: /ˈʃɪnˌboʊn/

Shinbone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in shinbone (behinnos).

Definitions for shinbone

noun

  1. the tibia.

Origin of shinbone

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

Examples for shinbone

Dr. Flip would diagnose a case as "Fatty degeneration of the shinbone, sire," and the usual remedy would be prescribed.

They took his shinbone, cut off each end, and used it to juggle up and catch on the back of the hand.

The maddened animal had struck him on the shinbone, and wounded him.

He drove the toe of his shoe squarely against the shinbone of the big man.

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

Word Value for shinbone
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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