heave shouldern.
In the Levitical law: The shoulder of an animal ‘heaved’ or elevated in sacrifice (cf. heave-offering n.). Also transferred and figurative.
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society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > which is waved when presented > that which is employed in
heave shoulder1530
wave-sheaf1530
shake breast1647
shake-day-sheaf1650
shake-sheaf1650
wave-bread1879
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. vii. f. xii The wauebrest and the heueshulder I haue taken of the childern of Israel..and haue geuen it vnto Aaron the prest and vnto his sonnes: to be a dutie for euer of the childern of Israel.
1647 Husbandmans Plea against Tithes 38 Then the custome is (in some Parishes) for the Parson to have a tenth joynt, a heave shoulder, or a shake breast.
a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. xxi. 278 ‘God’, said Gregory, ‘requires..the heave-shoulder and arm of Obedience’.
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