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shoulder
English
Etymology
From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”), Danish skulder (“shoulder”), Swedish skuldra (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????ld?/
- (General American) enPR: sh?l?d?r, IPA(key): /??o?ld?/
- Rhymes: -??ld?(r)
- Hyphenation: shoul?der
Noun
shoulder (plural shoulders)
- The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- (topography) A shelf between two levels.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- (figuratively) That which supports or sustains; support.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
Hyponyms
- (a verge to the side of a road): hard shoulder, soft shoulder
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shoulder (third-person singular simple present shoulders, present participle shouldering, simple past and past participle shouldered)
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (transitive, archaic, slang) Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).
Translations
Further reading
- shoulder at OneLook Dictionary Search
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armomancy
English
Etymology
From Latin armus (“shoulder blade”) +? -mancy.
Noun
armomancy (uncountable)
- Divination using the shoulder blade of an animal. It was taken from a dead animal and thrown into a fire, and the cracks formed in the bone were then interpreted.
- Divination through inspecting one's shoulders. In ancient times, this inspection was to see whether a human was a suitable sacrifice to the gods.
Synonyms
- omoplatoscopy
- scapulimancy
- scapulomancy
- spatulamancy
- (in Scotland): spealomancy
References
- "Armomancy, divining by the shoulders of beasts." -- Coles An Eng. Dict, 1676
- "ARMOMANCY: A long-forgotten mode of divining suitable candidates for sacrificial rites by inspecting them physically. Any modern survival of such practices is probably computerized rather than divinatory." -- Gibson Complete Illust. Bk Div. & Prophecy, 1973
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