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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

... offered a bribe of three thousand francs if mademoiselle would administer a potion in his coffee or wine, which would affect him as if he were stricken with apoplexy. During his insensibility they could easily discover whether Vautrin had the convict's brand on his shoulder. The pair accepted the bribe, and the plot succeeded. Vautrin was identified as Collin and arrested, just as a messenger came to announce that Frederic Taillefer had been killed in a duel, and Victorine was carried off with Madame Couture to her father's home, the sole ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... stands a little in advance of the hill-country, with which it is connected only by a low spur or shoulder, its base being the Plain of Esdraelon. This is probably the reason why it has been fixed upon as the place of the Transfiguration, as it is not mentioned by name in the New Testament. The words are: "an high mountain apart," which some suppose to refer to the position of the mountain, and not ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

... Judge would rejoice over the visit; turning one swallow into a summer, and in imagination beholding her daughter plunged into a very vortex of gaiety. She was still smiling, still considering, when Janet came strolling across the room, and laid her hand affectionately on Mrs Fanshawe's shoulder. ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... have heard him. He looked towards them both, and his fingers gripped Aaron's shoulder so that the young man winced with pain. Then without a single word ...

— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... her waist, but more as though she were a child than a woman, as he stood thinking. Of all the affairs in which he had ever been engaged, it was the most difficult. She submitted to his embrace, and leaned upon his shoulder, and looked up into his face. If he would only tell her that he loved her, then he would be bound to her,—then must he share with her the burthen of the diamonds,—then must he be true to her. "George!" ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

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