To climb.
1852. In the morning it will be advisable to “shin up” a tree, and, having taken the bearings, to walk till you find some breakfast.—Yale Lit. Mag., xviii. 6 (Oct.).
1859. Crows generally know about how far boys can “shin up,” and set their household establishments above that high-water-mark.—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. ix.
1888. I shinned up that tree so quick that I made the bark fly.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, Feb. 6 (Farmer).
