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reshoulder

reshoulder verb: to place (a burden) back onto one's shoulder.

Verb

reshoulder (third-person singular simple present reshoulders, present participle reshouldering, simple past and past participle reshouldered)

  1. (transitive) To place (a burden) back onto one's shoulder.
    • After a break for lunch, we reshouldered our backpacks and resumed the hike.
    • 'Think what you like' and he reshouldered his swag.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 265

Forms of reshoulder

third-person singular presentreshoulders
present participlereshouldering
past participlereshouldered
pastreshouldered

Origin of reshoulder

From re- + shoulder.

Questions about reshoulder

What does reshoulder mean?
Reshoulder means to place (a burden) back onto one's shoulder.
What part of speech is reshoulder?
Reshoulder is a verb.
What is the past tense of reshoulder?
The past tense of reshoulder is reshouldered.

Words near reshoulder in the dictionary

  1. reshortened
  2. reshortening
  3. reshortenings
  4. reshortens
  5. reshot
  6. reshoulder
  7. reshouldered
  8. reshouldering
  9. reshoulders
  10. reshovel
  11. reshoveled

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