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Shoulder

noun

The part of the body between the neck and the upper arm.

A cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg.

A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint.

The part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder.

A narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road. Synonym: berm.

verb

(past & past part. shouldered; pres. part. shouldering)

Lift onto one's shoulders.

Push with the shoulders.

Carry a burden, either real or metaphoric.

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"Shoulder" Quotes from Famous Books

... hand on Ashton-Kirk's shoulder. "As I feel now, facts are about the last things I want to deal with. Suppose the police found this out—that the rascal of a husband had visited Nora to get money from her, that he had struck her and taken her ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... felt an unpleasant shiver running down his spine as Robespierre, perfectly urbane and gentle in his manner, placed a long, bony hand upon his shoulder. ...

— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... My call aroused the others on the boat. Dr. Jermyn came and he broke open the door with his shoulder. But the room was empty. ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... in tight blue pantaloons that fitted him like his skin, over which were drawn long well-polished Hessian boots, each with a formidable tassel at top, and his coat was buttoned close up to the chin, with a blaz-, ing swab on the right shoulder, while a laced cocked hat and dress sword completed his equipment. But, alas! when we were accounted for on board of the old Torch, there was a fearful dilapidation of his external man. First of all, ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... more than three thousand years ago (Joshua 19:29),—nothing of that mighty metropolis which baffled the proud Nebuchadnezzar and all his power for thirteen years, until 'every head' in his army 'was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled,' in the hard service against Tyrus (Eze. 29:18),—nothing in this wretched roadstead and empty harbor to remind one of the times when merry mariners did sing in her markets—no visible trace of those towering ramparts which so long resisted ...

— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer

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