reshoulder

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ shoulder.

Verb

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

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

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

   • 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:

     'Think what you like' and he reshouldered his swag.

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

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

Anagrams

• shoulderer