Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
shoulder .
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Examples
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Back to ptting the dear down (or break it down) Until last year all my kills have dropped on the spot, but this deer was at 270 yds and I shot it thru the right fore-shoulder low, and it entered and tok out the Vitals and then tru the off shulder.
Testing Your Mettle 2008
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I add the extra weigh on the Butt end much easier for me to hold steady with the counter wt against my shulder.
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With the wt on the shulder, it solves that heavy front-end and helps you stabalize your shot.
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Then, then, as soon as the lump his back was turned, with her mealiebag slang over her shulder, Anna Livia, oysterface, forth of her bassein came.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The men bare their burdeins on the heade, the women on the shulder.
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Thenne ayenst tyme of mete, the boteler or the ewer shall brynge forthe clenly dressed and fayre applyed [3] Tabill-clothis, and the cubbord-clothe, cowched uppon his lefte shulder, laying them uppon the tabill ende, close applied [4] unto the tyme that he have firste coverd the cubbord; and thenne cover the syde-tabillis, and laste the principall tabill with dobell clothe drau {n}, cowched, and spradde unto the degre, as longeth therto in festis.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Seventh, there i locking clip that elps secue the lap-shulder sat belt.
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The men bare their burdeins on the heade, the women on the shulder.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Haldane, jist hand over that hammock ye've got storved away on ye shulder, so that we can fix up Jackson comfortable like for his trip to the upper reggins! "
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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Johnestoun: yea, albeit never man should accumpany me, I will go, and gif it war bot with a pick upoun my shulder; for I had rather dye with that cumpany, nor leve efter thame. "
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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