reshoulder

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verb

To place (a burden) back onto one's shoulder.

“After a break for lunch, we reshouldered our backpacks and resumed the hike.”

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Meanings

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

present singular third person reshoulders · participle present reshouldering · participle past reshouldered · past reshouldered

  1. transitiveTo place (a burden) back onto one's shoulder.

    After a break for lunch, we reshouldered our backpacks and resumed the hike.

    2 more examples

    '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

    He reshouldered his rifle. "Want to backtrail with me?"

    1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 50

Origin

From re- + shoulder.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

shoulderer
Cite this entry
APA

reshoulder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshoulder

MLA

“reshoulder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshoulder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reshoulder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshoulder.

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