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Definition of Shoulder

Shoulder To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side. The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural. Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support. That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton. The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle. 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. Related Definitions: About, Abrupt, Abutment, Adjacent, An, And, Angle, Animal, Any, Around, As, Assume, At, Back, Base, Basket, Bastion, Between, Beyond, Blame, Body, Burden, By, Carry, Character, Connected, Crowd, Debt, Dressed, Easy, End, Face, Fig, Flank, Flesh, For, Fore, Formed, Frame, From, Girdle, Heavy, Hence, Human, In, Included, Is, It, Joint, Jostle, Leg, Limb, Make, Market, Most, Motion, Move, Mutton, Object, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Part, Piece, Plural, Projection, Protuberance, Push, Raised, Region, Responsibility, See, Shoulder, Side, Support, Swaying, Take, Tenon, That, The, Thing, Through, Thrust, Timber, To, Top, Type, Upon, Upper, Used, Using, Violence, Way, Which, With

Shoulder Quotations Close the door. Write with _no one_ looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. H. L. Mencken We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. Tony Blair A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. Bernard Baruch Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway

Shoulder Translations shoulder in Afrikaans is skouer shoulder in Danish is skulder shoulder in Dutch is schouder shoulder in Finnish is hartia shoulder in German is Schulter, Schulter {f}, Achsel {f} shoulder in Italian is spalla shoulder in Latin is umerus humerus shoulder in Norwegian is skulder shoulder in Portuguese is ombro shoulder in Spanish is hombro shoulder in Swedish is axel, bog, skuldra

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