foreshoulder

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noun

The front part of the shoulder.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounforeshoulder (plural foreshoulders)

plural foreshoulders

  1. The front part of the shoulder.

    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
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    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

    What's more the young chief-king got in between Buhl-Bysee and the buffalo so that the agent could not shoot, and then the Indian coolly planted an arrow back of the foreshoulder of the animal with such force that it passed through the body and fell to the ground, other side.

    1902, DuBois Henry Loux, Ongon; a Tale of Early Chicago, Chicago: C. Francis Press, page 61

Origin

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