Definitions for shoulder

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shoulder shoul·der

Spelling: [shohl-der]

IPA: /ˈʃoʊl dər/

Shoulder is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in shoulder (dehlorsu).

Definitions for shoulder

noun

1. the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
2. Usually, shoulders. these two parts together with the part of the back joining them.
3. a corresponding part in animals.
4. the upper foreleg and adjoining parts of a sheep, goat, etc.
5. the joint connecting the arm or the foreleg with the trunk.
6. a shoulderlike part or projection.
7. Ornithology. the bend of a bird's wing, between the hand and the forearm, especially when distinctively colored, as in the red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus.
8. a cut of meat that includes the upper joint of the foreleg.
9. Often, shoulders. Informal. capacity for bearing responsibility or blame or sympathizing with other people:
10. a steplike change in the contour of an object, as for opposing or limiting motion along it or for an abutment.
11. Carpentry. the end surface or surfaces of a piece from which a tenon or tenons project. an inclined and raised surface, as on a joggle post, for receiving and supporting the foot of a strut or the like.
12. Fortification. the angle of a bastion between the face and the flank.
13. Printing. the flat surface on a type body extending beyond the base of the letter or character.
14. the part of a garment that covers, or fits over, the shoulder.
15. (in leather manufacturing) that part of the hide anterior to the butt.
16. either of the two edges or borders along a road, especially that portion on which vehicles can be parked in emergencies. Compare soft shoulder.
17. shoulder season.
18. Furniture. knee (def 6).

Idioms

1. cry on someone's shoulder, to reveal one's problems to another person in order to obtain sympathy:
2. put one's shoulder to the wheel, to work energetically toward a goal; put forth effort:
3. rub shoulders with, to come into association with; mingle with:
4. shoulder arms, Military. to place a rifle muzzle upward on the right or left shoulder, with the buttstock in the corresponding hand. the command to shoulder arms.
5. shoulder to shoulder, side by side; with united effort:
6. straight from the shoulder, without evasion; directly; candidly:

verb (used with object)

1. to push with or as if with the shoulder, especially roughly:
2. to take upon, support, or carry on or as if on the shoulder or shoulders:
3. to assume as a responsibility:

verb (used without object)

1. to push with or as if with the shoulder:

Origin of shoulder

before 900; (noun) Middle English sholder, s(c)hulder, Old English sculdor; cognate with Dutch schouder, German Schulter; (v.) Middle English shulderen, derivative of the noun

Examples for shoulder

He lifted Dennet on his shoulder, and bade her wave her parchment.

According to Ibrahim, the police officers grabbed him by the shoulder and struck him in the face.

So I just patted him kind-like on the shoulder and sat down.

But Liberty is always dipping his shoulder, whirling around.

“I only touched his shoulder,” the pastor told sheriffs, according to the police report.

Her mother, pregnant at the time of the killing, was hit in the shoulder by a bullet from the same gun that killed her son.

He looked over her shoulder again, and saw that Shepler was waiting for her.

“Thou art a good-hearted lad,” said the alderman with a hand on his shoulder.

He accordingly approached our hero, and tapped him on the shoulder.

His arm was about her waist, and hers rested on his shoulder.