shoulder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sċuldra, sċuldor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller, Schulder (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”).
Inflected forms:
form: shoulders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shouder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: shoulders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shouldering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shouldered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shouldered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shouder
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and arm socket.
pos: noun
examples: The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder.
But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
gloss: The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and arm socket.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and arm socket.
pos: noun
examples: In the firſt Courſe there was a Shoulder of Mutton, cut into an Æquilateral Triangle, a Piece of Beef into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid.
gloss: The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and arm socket.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
pos: noun
gloss: A shelf between two levels.
pos: noun
examples: He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire.
The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.
gloss: A shelf between two levels.
pos: noun
examples: […]the north-western shoulder of the mountain[…]
gloss: A shelf between two levels.
pos: noun
examples: I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].
gloss: A shelf between two levels.
pos: noun
gloss: A shelf between two levels.
pos: noun
gloss: The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
pos: noun
gloss: The portion between the neck and the body.
pos: noun
gloss: The portion between the neck and the body.
pos: noun
gloss: The portion between the neck and the body.
pos: noun
gloss: That which supports or sustains; support.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: passage[…]in thy ſhoulder do I builde my Seate;
gloss: The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
pos: noun
examples: You see you're going to make it into the safety of the shoulder. It feels like the happiest day of your life.
gloss: A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
pos: noun
examples: For a round-trip journey starting from the UK during the shoulder period (1 April-30 June) […]
the determination of noise-induced disturbances during the shoulder hours and their consequences for the consecutive sleep period
gloss: To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]As they the earth would ſhoulder from her ſeat,[…]
Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
gloss: To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: He shouldered me out of my own band.
gloss: To put (something) on one's shoulders.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.
Like a power clean, shouldering a sandbag — lifting it from the floor to your shoulder in one explosive movement — requires a coordinated effort from your core, upper body, and legs.
gloss: To place (something) against one's shoulders.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All three sets are nicely sculptured along the bottom to prevent interference when shouldering your gun with proper shooting form.
gloss: To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The shareholders were then shouldering a burden of liability out of proportion to their mere ownership of theoretical fractions of the business.
gloss: To accept responsibility for.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: shoulder the blame
The former president has been forced to shoulder some of the blame for poor performances in key races, including in Pennsylvania, where his handpicked Republican candidate, Mehmet Oz, lost to Democrat John Fetterman in a contest that allowed Democrats to keep the Senate majority.
She had a father before this and now she doesn’t have a father. And I shouldered that because if Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad.
gloss: To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
gloss: To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
[…]a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks […] came shouldering along together;
He had seen them in the beer halls, shouldering up to the head of the queues
Mr. Wagstaff strolled with me along the wooded arm of land shouldering northwards from Bethlehem Bay.
gloss: To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
Derived words: chip on one's shoulder
cold shoulder
cold-shoulder
cold shoulder sleeve
double shoulder lock
drop shoulder
foreshoulder
frozen shoulder
give someone the cold shoulder
hard shoulder
heave-shoulder
hip and shoulder
look over one's shoulder
Milwaukee shoulder syndrome
off-shoulder
off-the-shoulder
over the left shoulder
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
pull away the shoulder
put one's shoulder into
put one's shoulder to the wheel
rub shoulders
set one's shoulder to the wheel
shoulder angel
shoulder arms
shoulderbag
shoulder bag
shoulder-barge
shoulder belt
shoulderbelt
shoulder-blade
shoulder blade
shoulder block
shoulderboard
shoulder bolt
shoulder bone
shoulder button
shoulder check
shoulder devil
shoulder display
shoulder drop
shoulderer
shoulderette
shoulderful
Shouldergate
shoulder girdle
shoulder impingement syndrome
shoulder joint
shoulder knot
shoulder-knot
shoulder-length
shoulderless
shoulderlike
shoulderload
shoulder mark
shoulder-of-mutton sail
shoulder pad
shoulder piece
shoulder pole
shoulder-pole
shoulder season
shoulder-strap
shoulder surf
shoulder surfer
shoulder surfing
shoulder to cry on
shoulder-to-shoulder
shoulder to shoulder
straight-from-the-shoulder
straight from the shoulder
tubeshoulder
unshoulder
with one shoulder
you can't put an old head on young shoulders
reshoulder
shoulderable
Translations:
lang: French
word: epaule
lang: Venetan
word: spała