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Definition of Shouldered

1. Adjective. Having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form. "Broad-shouldered"

Definition of Shouldered

1. a. Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad-shouldered man.

Definition of Shouldered

1. Verb. (past of shoulder) ¹

2. Adjective. Having or pertaining to shoulders. ¹

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Definition of Shouldered

1. shoulder [v] - See also: shoulder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shouldered

Literary usage of Shouldered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"Length 21 inches; extent of wings 45; bill along the back l£, along the gap, from the tip of the lower mandible, l£; tarsus If. RED-Shouldered BUZZARD. ..."

2. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"SQUARE-Shouldered FIGURES These large and very peculiar anthropomorphic ... Square-shouldered painted figure. Ruin 4, where they are very abundant, ..."

3. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"The Red-Shouldered Hawk, or, as I would prefer calling it, the Red-breasted Hawk, although dispersed over the greater part of the United States, ..."

4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"DISCOVERY OF THE Shouldered COPPER CELTS IN WEST BENGAL AND CONNECTED PROBLEMS . ... The measurement of this celt which is a shouldered one V.as been ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Red-shouldered Hawks Using an Old Nest.—For many years a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks have built in the woods of the Gowanda Hospital grounds. ..."

6. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The so-called hen hawks are the red-shouldered and the red-tailed species, the latter being somewhat the larger and rarer of the two; both are very large ..."

7. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by Silas Casey (1863)
"He will then unite four men, whom he will place in the same rank, elbow to elbow, and instruct them in the position of shouldered arms, as follows: LESSON ..."

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