n. A set of parts for assembling a barrel or packing box. [Probably from shook cask, variant of shaken cask, cask broken down for shipment, from shaken, dismantled and packed for transport, past participle of SHAKE, to scatter, shed.] |
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v. Past tense of shake. |
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