shouldering

== English == === Noun === shouldering (plural shoulderings) The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder. 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly. (architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket. A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim. The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles. === Verb === shouldering present participle and gerund of shoulder