shoulder (n.)

shoulder (v.)

Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow,

Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow.

John Byrom (1691-1763): Upon a Trial of Skill between the Great Masters of the Noble Science of Defence, Messrs. Figg and Sutton.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Michael De Montaigne (1533-1592): Book iii. Chap. v. Upon some Verses of Virgil.

Like him in Aesop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2.