shouldered

adj — 2 senses

shouldered

adj
1

Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

  • a shouldered arch
  • Whorls 7 beside those of the embryo-shell; they are slightly shouldered below the suture, between which shoulder and the suture they are slightly hunchy; the last is rather small and slightly flattened.1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology (volume 26, page 244)
2

In compounds Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.

  • She was bare-shouldered.

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