shouldered

English

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Adjective

shouldered (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
    Antonym: unshouldered
    a shouldered arch
    • 1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology (volume 26, page 244)
      Whorls 7 beside those of the embryo-shell; they are slightly shouldered below the suture, between which shoulder and the suture they are slightly hunchy; the last is rather small and slightly flattened.
  2. (in combination) Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.
    She was bare-shouldered.

Verb

shouldered

  1. simple past and past participle of shoulder

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