shook
9.9
A set of wooden boards and end pieces for making a barrel
- noun
- /ʃʊk/
- Archaic
:
shook
Examples
-
I wonder if I could even take a little bit of shook and kind of work it in to layer it up.
-
It's called the shock, the shook and then you get lash craft.
-
The cooper carefully arranged the pieces of shook in the workshop before assembling the barrel.
-
To ship the antique barrel, they packed the shook securely in boxes to prevent damage.
-
The old barrels were disassembled, leaving only the shook neatly stacked for storage.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word shook for barrel parts comes from an old word meaning 'bundle' or 'set' and is like shock in the phrase 'a shock of grain'. So a shook is a bundle of barrel parts packed together and ready to be shipped.
