shinbone

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin +‎ bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

shinbone (plural shinbones)

1. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
2. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

• tibia, shankbone

• Shinboner

• bishonen