"shouldering" meaning in English

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          "text": "1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin\nOur 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."
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          "text": "[…] at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.",
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        "The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder."
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        "The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket."
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        "(architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket."
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          "text": "And farther, that being fitted to each other on their flat sides, alternate male and female (see drawing annexed), by means of the shoulderings or wedgewise-securings, and abutments, which will be better and more clearly understood by a view of the drawings annexed to these presents, and to which we hereafter particularly refer;",
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          "ref": "1995, Saint Bede (the Venerable), Seán Connolly, Jennifer O'Reilly, Bede: On the Temple, →ISBN, page 98:",
          "text": "Furthermore the shoulderings which were put outside the wheels to prevent them from slipping off the axles, are the proclamations of the prophets which lend weight to the evangelical and apostolic writing lest it should be doubted by any of its readers.",
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        "A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim."
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