Actually, he felt it first, in the broken shin bone and his sore head.
You know that line about the shin bone connected to the leg bone?
The pressure from the squeezing of the boot would break the shin bone in pieces.
One had a cut deep into his shin bone.
Sometimes called the shin bone, but actually analogous to the bones in the human palm or foot.
This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone.
When you touch the area on either side of your shin bone, it may feel sore and tender.
So we go, who file old jaws and shin bones.
Some early flutes were made out of tibias (shin bones).
Ax blade probably hit the shin bone and skinned along the top of it.