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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck [syn: shinny, shinney] v
1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun also shinney Etymology: perhaps from ¹shin Date: 1672 a variation of hockey played by children with a curved stick and a ball or block of wood; also the stick used II. intransitive verb (shinnied; shinnying) Etymology: alteration of ²shin Date: 1851 to move oneself up or down something vertical (as a pole) especially by alternately hugging it with the arms or hands and the legs

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. foll. by up, down) US colloq. shin (up or down a tree etc.).