Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In horticulture, said of grape-clusters that have a shoulder or are broadest at the base.
  • Broad and high in the umbo-lateral regions: used in the characterization of the Brachiopoda.
  • Having shoulders, of this or that character: as, broad -shouldered, round-shouldered, red-shouldered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having shoulders; -- used in composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of shoulder.
  • adjective Having or pertaining to shoulders.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form

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Examples

  • And Mr. Junkin shouldered the blame, his otherwise sterling 19-year career marred by that one play.

    One Jet's Upside-Down Dream Scott Cacciola 2010

  • Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • The opening is of the form sometimes called the shouldered arch, a square lintel (which, curiously enough, is not one stone) resting on corbels; and the semicircular arch over this is of four orders, the uppermost of which projects considerably from the wall.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

  • It's like extolling the noble sacrifice of Nicaragua's Samoza when he and 3,000 of his friends took in 90% of the country's wealth and earnings and munificently "shouldered" 60% of the taxes that the 4 million Nicaraguans had to caught up.

    <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-message-is-just-too-depressing.html" title="Obama's message is just too depressing Ann Althouse 2008

  • The treatment of the angles after the manner of the thirteenth century "shouldered" lintel in order to take off the harshness of the rectangular form and to give a better bearing for the lintels is noteworthy and should be compared with the more developed forms at St. John's Church.

    The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

  • 'The Master of Ballantrae' shouldered 'The Queen's Regulations,' one would fancy with a swaggering hint of scorn; a battered copy of the

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • Tall of stature, broad "shouldered," an open contenance, and steady eye, he is just the man to draw forth from passers-by the interrogatory, Who is he?

    An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867

  • Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.

    Jamaica Information Service 2009

  • Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.

    Jamaica Information Service 2009

  • Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.

    Jamaica Information Service 2009

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