(n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
(n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.
(n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
(v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
(2) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(3) In 2003 Mayweather allegedly punched two friends of his then-partner (and the mother of several of his children) Josie Harris in a nightclub and shook a female security guard.
(4) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(5) The Indianapolis Star reported that after the debate, Donnelly, the Democratic senate candidate, "shook his head over" Mourdock's comments.
(6) He shook his head from side to side, whispering or humming the same three-note tune.
(7) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(8) Ukip shook the can before Tory MPs handed it to Cameron for opening, thereby spraying himself and his party in a sticky political mess.
(9) Bias's death not only shook the sporting world, its ramifications are still being felt today both in and out of the sporting world.
(10) Saturday’s attacks are likely to increase the tension and fear of instability that have endured since an attempted coup in July shook the country.
(11) Five years after the event that shook the very foundations of Norway’s national identity, the site of the 22 July massacre – the deadliest ever shooting by a single gunman in history (who also killed eight more people in Oslo with a car bomb earlier that day) – has been transformed into a place that tells the story with stark, stirring power.
(12) French police have charged a father with child abuse after he allegedly shook and beat his month-old baby because he could not bear the infant's crying – and then posted a photo of the baby's bruised face on Facebook "for a laugh".
(13) The pair shook hands before the meeting, which went on for several hours in a round-table format, and then also met one-on-one for two hours late in the evening.
(14) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(15) He shook hands with some of his fellow defendants as he left the dock to begin his life sentence.
(16) United will reflect on other chances, such as when Vidic's header shook the post from a first-half corner.
(17) The first decade of the 21st century shook the international order, turning the received wisdom of the global elites on its head – and 2008 was its watershed.
(18) One of the most forthright members of the new crossbench, the Tasmanian PUP senator Jacqui Lambie, shook hands with the leader of the government in the Senate, Eric Abetz, despite declaring in a weekend media interview that she did “not like the man” (she told News Corp Abetz was part of a “little men’s group” of Coalition senators who lacked achievements).
(19) Because ever since Nick Clegg shook hands with David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing St and formed the coalition, doing well in byelections – hitherto the Liberal Democrats’ forte – has been beyond them.
(20) His death prompted protests and rioting that shook the city and caused millions of dollars in damage, and has since come to symbolize the broken relationship between the police and the public in Baltimore, and the treatment of black men by police in the US.
Spook
Definition:
(n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
(n.) The chimaera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(2) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
(3) But political corruption and the implacable opposition of the spooks and military to progressive change are the traditional forms of anti-democratic politics, in Britain, as elsewhere.
(4) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
(5) Backing the spooks against a left-leaning newspaper is, for a Tory prime minister, a no-brainer.
(6) Investors were also spooked by a chequered sales performance as breakneck growth stuttered at home and abroad.
(7) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
(8) She is, therefore, basically the Ruth Evershed (from Spooks) of the ancient world.
(9) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
(10) If the only black people they see are the "looky looky" men on the beach selling fake watches then the idea of a black holidaymaker might spook them.
(11) "She has reinvented family drama in Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Merlin and launched acclaimed contemporary series such as Spooks and Life on Mars as well as Cranford.
(12) Any list of the decade's most memorable shows would be dominated by series that began in its early years: The Office, Spooks, Peep Show, The Thick of It, Shameless.
(13) Greece spooked investors for a third day running on Thursday as the Athens stock exchange fell 7.35% amid fears over the debt-stricken country’s future in the eurozone.
(14) If the desertion of some of their juniors has spooked Egypt's generals, they are being careful not to show it.
(15) In the technology world, a still-young and rapidly expanding business posting losses isn't unusual, and it's unlikely to spook many investors.
(16) The Daily Mail and the Spectator apparently don't care much if spooks routinely capture and comb all our emails and phone traffic.
(17) After our daughter left, my wife would sometimes go to her room – pictures of Spooks, etc – and cry.
(18) He is said to have entered the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit premises on 3 April and walked away on 5 April, spooked by the discovery that the fire escape door they had previously used had been locked in the interim.
(19) As the debate in ancient Westminster Hall wound on and the libertarians (security must not undermine basic freedoms) proved the better-briefed side, the spook faction got a bit dirty, as is their patriotic duty.
(20) That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in: they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.” Peña Nieto’s pronouncements are the most forceful so far against Trump, whose rise to the top of the Republican primary races has spooked Mexicans of all social strata.