·noun Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
II. Shoulder ·noun The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. ·see ·Illust. of Bastion.
III. Shoulder ·vt To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to Jostle.
IV. Shoulder ·noun That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
V. Shoulder ·noun The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
VI. Shoulder ·add. ·vi 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.
VII. Shoulder ·vt 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.
VIII. Shoulder ·noun 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.
IX. Shoulder ·noun 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.
X. Shoulder ·noun 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.