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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

... themselves in the choice of stuffs, colours, cut of their mantles or petticoats, arrangement of the hair, and the use of cosmetics for the eyes and cheeks. In spite of distance, the modes of Babylon reigned supreme. The Syrians would have continued to expose their right shoulder to the weather as long as it pleased the people of the Lower Euphrates to do the same; but as soon as the fashion changed in the latter region, and it became customary to cover the shoulder, and to wrap the upper ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... her warm young body against Peter. She laid her tired head on his shoulder. She slipped the top letter of the packet in her lap from under its band, opened it, and held it before him. Peter read it very deliberately, ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... the shoulder in a friendly manner). That's as it should be, my dear boy! Now I see that you are a brave and noble fellow, and worthy of the first woman in the dukedom. You shall have her. This very day you shall be affianced to the Countess ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... horses' hoofs had died away in the distance, Sappho laid her head on her grandmother's shoulder and wept uncontrollably. Rhodopis remonstrated and blamed, but all in vain, she could not ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... started toward the stairs—then turned and came back to where Jason, still shaking his head heavily, had been gazing anxiously after his master. Jimmie Dale laid his hand on the old man's shoulder. ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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