SHOOK
\ʃˈʊk], \ʃˈʊk], \ʃ_ˈʊ_k]\
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imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
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A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
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A set of boards for a sugar box.
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To pack, as staves, in a shook.
By Oddity Software
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A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
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A set of boards for a sugar box.
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To pack, as staves, in a shook.
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imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
By Noah Webster.
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Of the verb shake.
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A set of staves and headings sufficient for one cask, barrel, etc.; a set of boards ready to be assembled or nailed together to make some object, as a box, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
