Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foreshoulder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fore-shoul-der
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The front part of the shoulder.

Example Sentences

"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."
"He rides a white horse whose foreshoulders are as high as my head."
"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."

Etymology

fore- + shoulder

Word Breakdown

Prefix: fore

Inflected Forms

foreshoulders (plural)

Questions

What does foreshoulder mean?: The front part of the shoulder.
Where does foreshoulder come from?: fore- + shoulder

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