Definitions for shook
ʃʊkshook

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. shooknoun

   A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shooknoun

   a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Shook

   of Shake

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

2. Shook

   of Shake

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

3. Shook

   imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

4. 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.]

5. Shooknoun

   a set of boards for a sugar box

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

6. Shooknoun

   the parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

7. Shookverb

   to pack, as staves, in a shook

   Etymology: [Cf. Shock a bundle of sheaves.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shook

   shook, pa.t. of shake.

Matched Categories

1. • Barrel

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shook' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1887

Anagrams for shook »

1. hooks

How to pronounce shook?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say shook in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shook in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of shook in a Sentence

1. Ruby Hubbard:

   Oh it shook my whole house and rattled the windows. I knew something had happened because we don’t have explosions like that down here. It was a loud explosion.

2. Photographer Kevin Ebi:

   Don’t worry: the fox was fine. It shook off the encounter and resumed playing with its fellow kits. I took several pictures of it after the ordeal and couldn’t find a single scratch.

3. Bassist Matt McJunkins:

   The gunfire got closer. It went on for, you know, ten, fifteen minutes, it just didn't stop. And then it would stop and there was this sense of relief and then it would start up again. and then there was an explosion that just shook the whole room, probably the whole building.

4. Gloria Tinner:

   It was harder than normal and lasted a little bit longer and rumbled, like everything…the walls, the floor, it shook, i want to know what's the cause of it. What's going on? Why's this happening? It shouldn't be happening here.

5. Abby Finkenauer:

   What we have seen specifically from Trump and his administration has been going back on words after hands have been shook, the tariffs affected the beans and the ethanol has affected the corn. We're getting hit at the kneecaps.

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