shoulderings

Noun

shouldering (plural shoulderings)

1. The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
   • 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.1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
2. The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
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...1803, Repertory of Arts Manufactures and Agriculture
4. The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.