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Shaken

SHAKEN, pp. sha'kn.
1. Impelled with a vacillating motion; agitated.
2. a. Cracked or split; as shaken timber.
Nor is the wood shaken nor twisted, as those about Capetown. Barrow.
[Our mechanics usually pronounce this shaky, forming the word from shake, like pithy, from pith.]

 

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