English Dictionary

shoulder

/ˈʃəʊɫdə/

verb

(transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder. / (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders. / (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.

She shouldered the responsibility and took charge.

意味（1）

(transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

[…]As they the earth would ſhoulder from her ſeat,[…]

意味（2）

(transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.

Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.

意味（3）

(transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.

All three sets are nicely sculptured along the bottom to prevent interference when shouldering your gun with proper shooting form.

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.

The shareholders were then shouldering a burden of liability out of proportion to their mere ownership of theoretical fractions of the business.

意味（5）

(transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.

shoulder the blame

意味（6）

(transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.

allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.

[…]a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks […] came shouldering along together;

意味（8）

(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.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.

意味（10）

(transitive, archaic, slang) Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).