What does shook mean?
Definitions for shook
ʃʊkshook
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Princeton's WordNet
shooknoun
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
Wiktionary
shooknoun
A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
Webster Dictionary
Shook
of Shake
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shook
of Shake
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shook
imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shooknoun
a set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shooknoun
a set of boards for a sugar box
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shooknoun
the parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Shookverb
to pack, as staves, in a shook
Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Shook
shook, pa.t. of shake.
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Rank popularity for the word 'shook' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1887
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shook in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of shook in a Sentence
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
We shook hands and it felt really awkward, it sounds strange to say that, but I haven't shaken hands for over a year with anybody, you know, and that's a normal thing for us to do.
What I felt was that it was an earthquake, the apartment shook horizontally and all of a sudden it felt like an explosion and the windows and doors burst open. The glass just broke. So many homes were damaged or destroyed.
There was a very large boom and everything started to shake for just a second as the shock passed over, everything sort of shook, my desk was shaking, I was shaking, my chair was shaking.
We went to the villa. This guy shook our hands, looks us in the eyes, he tells his fake story, and we couldn't feel anything from this guy. Like, I just can't believe it.
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