Definition of shake

• - obs. p. p. of 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.
• v. - Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
• v. - To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
• 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.
• v. i. - To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
• n. - The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
• n. - A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
• n. - A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. - A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
• n. - One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. - A shook of staves and headings.
• n. - The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.