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Definition of Shin guard
1. Noun. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shin Guard
Literary usage of Shin guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Corinthian Football Club by B. O. Corbett (1906)
"True, he was wearing a very large and prominent white shin-guard outside the
stocking of the injured limb. These were the good wholesome hacking days, ..."
2. Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare by Bashford Dean (1920)
"Shin-guard An attempt accordingly was made to provide a convenient shin-guard,
or greave, which might reduce perceptibly the number of injuries. ..."
3. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports by Walter Chauncey Camp (1900)
"Therefore I would say most emphatically that if a player receives a bruise or
scrape on the shin, he had better put on a shin-guard at once, and continue to ..."
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography by Julian Hawthorne (1884)
"... guarded from the severe blows of the ball by a peculiar coat-of-mail reaching
from the ankles above the knee. This shin-guard was made of buff leather, ..."
5. Caesar's Gallic War by Julius Caesar, Arthur Tappan Walker, Cornelius Marshal Lowe (1907)
"Perhaps a greave on the right leg, though Caesar does not mention it. This was
very much like a football shin-guard, but made of metal. 36 Arms. a. ..."
6. Caesar's Gallic War by Julius Caesar, Arthur Tappan Walker, Cornelius Marshal Lowe (1907)
"This was very much like a football shin-guard, but made of metal. Arms. a.
A heavy wooden javelin (pilum, Fig. 1), with a long iron point which was strong ..."
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