obs. ·p.p. of shake.
2. shake ·noun a fissure in rock or earth.
3. shake ·noun a shook of staves and headings.
4. shake ·noun one of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
5. shake ·noun a fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
6. shake ·noun the redshank;
so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
7. shake ·v to give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
8. shake ·v fig.: to move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
9. shake ·noun a rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
10. shake ·noun the act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
11. shake ·v to cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
12. shake ·vi to be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
13. shake ·v to move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of;
generally with an adverb, as off, out, ·etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.