Shoulder ¹

Definition: 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.

Shoulder ²

Definition: 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.

Shoulder ³

Definition: Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.

Shoulder ⁴

Definition: That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.

Shoulder ⁵

Definition: The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.

Shoulder ⁶

Definition: The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

Shoulder ⁷

Definition: 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.

Shoulder ⁸

Definition: To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.

Shoulder ⁹

Definition: 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.

shoulder ¹⁰

Definition: narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

shoulder ¹¹

Definition: the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm

shoulder ¹²

Definition: a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula

shoulder ¹³

Definition: a cut of beef from the shoulder of the animal

shoulder ¹⁴

Definition: push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd"

shoulder ¹⁵

Definition: carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"

shoulder ¹⁶

Definition: lift onto one''s shoulders