Shouldering

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.

    "1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly."

  2. 2
    The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
  3. 3
    A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.

    "And farther, that being fitted to each other on their flat sides, alternate male and female (see drawing annexed), by means of the shoulderings or wedgewise-securings, and abutments, which will be better and more clearly understood by a view of the drawings annexed to these presents, and to which we hereafter particularly refer;"

  4. 4
    The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shoulder form-of, gerund, participle, present

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