different between smouldering vs shouldering

English

smouldering

present participle of smoulder
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
  Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

smouldering (plural smoulderings)

(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

shouldering

shouldering (plural shoulderings)

The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
- 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
  Our 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.
(architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.
The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.

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