SHOULDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shouldered mean? 

• SHOULDERED (adjective)
  The adjective SHOULDERED has 1 sense:

1. having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form

  Familiarity information: SHOULDERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOULDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

broad-shouldered

Pertainym:

shoulder (the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm)

 Context examples 

He watched them closely as they shouldered the luggage and were led off down the hill by Matt, who carried the bedding and the grip.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I flung the curtain aside and found myself face to face with a broad-shouldered elderly man, who had just stepped into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he returned and shouldered his pack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

My companion was a powerful, broad-shouldered young fellow, and, apart from the weapon, I should not have had the slightest chance in a struggle with him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With that, Jo shouldered her broom and marched into the house, wondering what they would all say to her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Which weapon hath the vantage now?” cried the Brabanter, strutting proudly about with shouldered arbalest, amid the applause of his companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was, now, a huge, strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round-shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hair that gave him quite a sheepish look.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan,—a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)