reshoulder

verb

reshoulder

verb

Etymology From re- + shoulder.

1

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:
1 more example
  • He reshouldered his rifle. "Want to backtrail with me?"1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 50:

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