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Webster 1913 Edition

(shoŏk)

imp.

obs.

poet.

Noun.

[Cf.

a bundle of sheaves.]

(Com.)

(a)

A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.

(b)

A set of boards for a sugar box.

(c)

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

Verb.

To pack, as staves, in a shook.

pp.

of shake.