The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoulder \Shoul"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shouldered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shouldering.]
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To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.
--Spenser.Around her numberless the rabble flowed, Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
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To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
As if Hercules Or burly Atlas shouldered up their state.
--Marston.Right shoulder arms (Mil.), a position in the Manual of Arms which the piece is placed on the right shoulder, with the lock plate up, and the muzzle elevated and inclined to the left, and held as in the illustration.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder. 2 (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of shoulder English)
Usage examples of "shouldering".
They saw him walking to the cabin and they saw Rammy shouldering the shotgun.
Quantrill had given up hope of shouldering a backpack until his father, an active reservist, took a hard look at his orders on a Thursday evening.
Boadicea was really lying down to her work, shouldering the long swell aside with a fine living motion and making her ten knots with no effort, so that for all those untormented by vile premonitions it was a pleasure to feel her sail.
Two of his sons have gone to the forest, shouldering their skillfully-made blowguns in search of meat to feed the fifteen or twenty Auca Indians who are at present in this clearing.
USS billfish Commander Harrison Toth IV stepped up to the periscope stand of the USS Billfish, shouldering aside the heavy curtain surrounding the periscope stand that was used to screen out the glow from the control-room instruments when the room was rigged for black.
For a moment Cho thought she was going to see something stupendous, but the heads approached the far side of the inlet and separated, shouldering water aside, producing long legs, glistening backs and trailing tails.
When a sword swung at him, Richard ducked under it, shouldering the man over the edge into the river before dashing on through the opening it created.
She told her to bring Maj to the hospital, reassured Lee that her own burns were minor, put down the receiver, and looked up to see Al Hawkin furiously shouldering his way through uniforms and nurses alike.
A flock of dotterels bobbing, bowing, skipping, and shouldering one another may be merely practising some evolution with serious intent, though it is far more natural to conclude that the frail little birds are in holiday humour.
Anakin circled past and first sensed, then saw more impostors, three human and two Duros, shouldering their way out of the crowd.
When Mr. George is dry, he goes to work to brush his head with two hard brushes at once, to that unmerciful degree that Phil, shouldering his way round the gallery in the act of sweeping it, winks with sympathy.
Shouldering into her load like a plowhorse against the yoke, she knew what she wanted Wild or not, she had a job and she liked working.
That torque was slight, but dreadful in its scale and Hackle now began to run outright, shouldering fanatically forward through the stinging whiteouts, steering by glimpses of the portal-pit.
Even now, exhausted and aggrieved, Baden could feel himself shouldering old burdens once more.
Shouldering heedlessly into the saloon-bar, he found it deserted except for a chinless potman: the liveliest evening trade was always plied in the cheaper bars adjacent.