Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
2. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
3. To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
4. simple past of shake.
5. (now informal) past participle of shake
6. (slang) Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
7. (slang) Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared.

Example Sentences

Rich. Alack, why am I ſent for to a King, Before I haue ſhooke off the Regall thoughts / Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd / To inſinuate,flatter,bowe,and bend my Knee.

Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]

Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had.

He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.

Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.

Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."

Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.

Word Forms

• shooks
• shooking
• shooked
• more shook
• most shook

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Use shook when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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