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English
Etymology
fore- + shoulder
Noun
foreshoulder (plural foreshoulders)
- The front part of the shoulder.
1800, The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca., Wilmington: Bonsal & Niles, page 186: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.
1883, Dr. A. B. Weymouth, editor, A Memorial Sketch of Lieut. Edgar M. Newcomb, of the Nineteenth Mass. Vols., page 33:He rides a white horse whose foreshoulders are as high as my head.
1902, DuBois Henry Loux, Ongon; a Tale of Early Chicago, Chicago: C. Francis Press, page 61: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.