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foreshoulder

foreshoulder noun: the front part of the shoulder.

Noun

foreshoulder (plural foreshoulders)

  1. The front part of the shoulder.
    • I, seeing the danger, ran in with the same precipitancy, and clapping the muzzle of my gun almost close to his side, a little be his foreshoulder, shot him quite through the body; so he dropped down dead before us.1800, The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca., Wilmington: Bonsal & Niles, page 186
    • He rides a white horse whose foreshoulders are as high as my head.1883, Dr. A. B. Weymouth, editor, A Memorial Sketch of Lieut. Edgar M. Newcomb, of the Nineteenth Mass. Vols., page 33

Forms of foreshoulder

pluralforeshoulders

Origin of foreshoulder

fore- + shoulder

Questions about foreshoulder

What does foreshoulder mean?
Foreshoulder means the front part of the shoulder.
What part of speech is foreshoulder?
Foreshoulder is a noun.
What is the plural of foreshoulder?
The plural of foreshoulder is foreshoulders.

Words near foreshoulder in the dictionary

  1. foreshortening
  2. foreshortenings
  3. foreshortens
  4. foreshot
  5. foreshots
  6. foreshoulder
  7. foreshoulders
  8. foreshow
  9. foreshowed
  10. foreshower
  11. foreshowers

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