Definitions for shinbones

shinbones shin·bone

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

Shinbones is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in shinbones (behinnoss).

Definitions for shinbones

noun

  1. the tibia.

Origin of shinbones

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

Examples for shinbones

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for shinbones
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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