shake

shake

1. an instance of shaking dice before casting

2. Music another word for trill

3. a dance, popular in the 1960s, in which the body is shaken convulsively in time to the beat

4. an informal name for earthquake

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shake

[shāk]

(materials)

Separation between adjoining layers of wood, due to causes other than drying.

A thick hand-cut shingle.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

shake

A thick wood shingle, usually formed either by hand-splitting a short log into tapered radial sections or by sawing; usually attached in overlapping rows on wood sheathing, 1 as a covering for a roof or wall.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Shake

 

a modern ballroom dance of British origin. Improvised, with characteristic movements of the shoulders and body, the dance is in 4/4 time, with a tempo ranging from moderate to moderately fast.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.