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reshoulder en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + shoulder.

Meanings

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

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