shakingn.
/ˈʃeɪkɪŋ/ 1. † b. The gathering, harvesting, falling or shedding (of fruit or grain). literal and figurative. Obsolete.† d. shaking of the sheets n. the name of a dance (in the 16–17th centuries very often used jocularly for sexual intercourse). Obsolete.in extended use.16.. Ballad, Doleful Dance & Song of Death i Can you dance the shaking of the Sheets, a Dance that every one must do?.. Make ready then your winding sheet.1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. C3 But this yongster daunced the shaking of one sheet [i.e. died] within fewe daies after.
a. The action of shake v., in any sense.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking
quakingeOE
quakea1350
shakingc1380
rogging1440
shaggingc1440
brangling1584
quagswagging1653
shake1665
quivering1801
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > trilling
shaking1685
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. III. 313 Bi here newe dampnacion þat þei maden at London in þe erþe schakyng.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xxiv. 98 All þe toknes [of the fever] wer come, as schakyng, akyng of þe hed and swech oþir.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. B.viv, in Whole Wks. (1587) It was the shaking of some leafe.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 345 Fewe there are, who in great ouerthwarts and shakings of fortune, haue harts sufficiently staied to practise..that which they commend.
1685 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Mixt Ess. 24 With their warblings and shakings, they [the Spaniards] seem to mind nothing in their singing, but to contend with Nightingales.
1782 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 404 But shaking on horseback guards pretty well against it.
1891 Ld. Lytton Lett. (1906) II. 430 The shaking I got on my way from London to Paris made last Sunday a terribly painful one to me.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 157 The great need of the age is a good sound shaking, to get the nonsense out.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun]
inning?1407
harvest1526
ingathering1535
shaking1623
harvesting1719
1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 237 These fellowes are growne ripe; I hope wee shall have the shakinge of them.
1637 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd for shakinge of our frute 0 2 0.
1658 [see shaking time n. at Compounds 1a]. c1750 MS. relating to Suffolk Manors No person shall in the time of Shaking..keep any drove cattle in the fields.
c. With adverbs.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > by shaking
shakingc1440
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > action of shaking something > dislodging or removing by shaking
shakingc1440
decussion1664
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > bringing into action > rousing to activity
stirring1530
rousing?a1563
stirring?c1580
shake-up1847
shaking1866
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > action of shaking something > down or up
shaking1866
shakedown1878
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/2 Schakynge a-wey, excussio.
1608 S. Hieron 6 Serm. iii. 33 A shaking off of that due obedience which we owe vnto him.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 172 The Break made by the Shaking out of the Mettal.
1866 W. Collins Armadale ii. vii A good shaking-up is just the thing for you, after being so long indoors.
1897 H. A. Jones Case Rebell. Susan i. 19 I allow every married couple twelve months for what I call the shaking-down process.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. ix. 118 Taking them [sc. Infusoria] on a railway journey to give them a good shaking-up.
1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 12/4 The best opinion is that a thorough shaking-out will do much good, but there is no need for alarm.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive vi. 134 Only Pursewarden had not put in an appearance... Mountolive planned to give him a shaking-up at the first opportunity.
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the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 213 To that daunce of all other I see he is bent. Sr. Faythe no I had rather haue shakinge oth shetes.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 411 O tis his best daunce next shaking of the sheetes.
1633 Match at Mid-night iii. i Thee and I shall dance the shaking of the sheetes together.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. vii. 25 He knew not what a dance the Don would lead him, before he return'd to the shaking of the sheets, with his Joan Gutierez.
2. A disease in sheep and swine (see quot. a1722). Also the ague. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of sheep or pigs
blood?1523
shaking1642
blood disease1811
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > ague
accessc1300
aguec1325
wedenonfa'c1500
exiesa1585
fen-shake1794
trembling aixies1808
(the) shivers1861
shaking1877
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xi. 401 Being good Phisick for the sheep to keep them from the Shakings.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 339 Some years the sheep will be apt to be taken with a disease they call the shaking..: it is a weakness which seizes their hinder quarters, so that they cannot rise up when they are down.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum at Tremour The tremour or shaking in Swine.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Shakkins, the ague. ‘Thoo dodhers as if thoo'd getten shakkins.’
3. concrete. That which is shaken off, out, down, etc. Nautical (see quots. 1867 –18862). Also with adverbs down, off, out. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming > by adaptation to circumstances
shakinga1382
acclimation1801
acclimating1805
seasoning1807
acclimatizing1817
acclimatement1823
acclimatation1825
acclimatization1826
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > shaken off
shakinga1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xvii. 6 As the shaking out of the oile berie.
1388 J. Wyclif Bible: Isa. xvii. 6 As the schakyng doun of the fruyt of olyue tre.
1682 J. Houghton's Coll. Lett. Husb. etc. No. 7 I. 70 The Shakings of the Cloth.
1754 P. Hiffernan Hiberniad iv. 29 Luxuriant Congreve (the..Shakings-off of whose Pen, would invigorate twenty of our late spiritless miscall'd Comedies).
1839 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. 8 726 (heading) Shakings.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shakings, refuse of cordage, canvas, &c., used for making oakum, paper, &c.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Sept. 287 Shakings are the sweepings of the deck gathered together after the day's work is done.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Sept. 287 ‘Mere shakings’ is a term used by seamen to express worthless men.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
shaking time n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest-time
harvest902
harvest monthc1000
reap-timeOE
harvest-tidec1175
harvest time1362
reaping timea1382
shaking time1658
picking time1799
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 284 Away they runne with their enjoyments,..like hogges in shaking time.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shacking-time, the Season when Mast is ripe.
b. In the names of machines used for agitating materials.
shaking barrel n.
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1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/4 Boot-rivet Machines, Spring Punches, Shaking Barrel.
shaking frame n.
shaking table n. (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875)
C2.
shaking cure n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Shaking cure, the treatment of certain nervous diseases, such as paralysis agitans, by means of a vibrating arm~chair.
shaking machine n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 1090 Rumble or Shaking Machine. This is a contrivance sometimes used for polishing small articles principally by their attrition against each other.
shaking stop n. the tremolo organ stop.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > tremolo stop
shaking stop1659
trembling-stop1659
tremolando1852
tremolant1854
tremulant1862
tremolo1869
1659 C. Simpson Division-violist i. 9 Some also affect a kind of Shake or Tremble with the Bow, like the shaking Stop of an Organ.
1665 in Hopkins Organ (1845) Hist. 52 One Shaking Stopp.
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shakingadj.
/ˈʃeɪkɪŋ/ a. In the senses of the verb. Of a bog, morass, etc.: Quaking. shaking prairie, (in Louisiana) quaking bog-land covered with thin herbage. shaking stone, a rocking stone.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > shaking
quakingOE
shaking?c1225
branglinga1522
doddering1746
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > trembling or quivering > from cold, infirmity, or emotion
quakingOE
shaking?c1225
shivering1577
shrugginga1586
shivery1837
shaky1850
trepidant1891
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > rocking or perched
rocking stone1638
shaking stonea1705
logan-stone1759
logging-stone1818
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 51 [Lechery] mid schakinde word ȝeueð speres wunde.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 210 Þei..suffre pore men haue nakid sidis & schakynge lippis & hondis for cold.
1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. Diijv And brought from Boggs to champion ground,..Yet doe thei loke to shaking boggs.
1660 R. May Accomplisht Cook 166 To make a Shaking Pudding.
a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 240 Here lies a Stone, called the shaking Stone.
1763 J. Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 137 Mr. Eliot's contrivance to drain a piece of shaking meadow, as he calls it.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 28 Item..a florentine, a shaking pudding.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxiii The cat made for a shaking bog—the loneliest place in the whole country.
1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 133 Holding their shaking sides.
b. Of a disease: Characterized by a tremulous agitation of the head or limbs. shaking palsy n. tremulous paralysis in the aged.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics
hoteOE
redeOE
foulOE
elvishc1386
dryc1400
whitec1450
Naples1507
shaking1528
cold1569
exquisite1583
unpure1583
waterish1583
wandering1585
legitimate1615
sulphureous1625
tetrous1637
cagastrical1662
medical1676
ambulatory1684
ebullient1684
frantic1709
animated1721
progressive1736
cagastric1753
vegetative1803
left-handed1804
specific1804
subacute1811
animate1816
gregarious1822
vernal1822
ambilateral1824
subchronic1831
regressive1845
nummular1866
postoperative1872
ambulant1873
non-surgical1888
progredient1891
spodogenous1897
spodogenic19..
non-invasive1932
early-onset1951
adult-onset1957
non-specific1964
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp > shaking or trembling
shaking1528
fibrillary1875
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Y ij White pepper is holsome for a shakynge feuer.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D5 The shaking Palsey, and Saint Fraunces fire.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 401 The disease called Tremor, or the shaking palsie.
1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. v. 589 From the fact that it was first fully described by Parkinson in 1817, it has been called ‘Parkinson's disease’, but the name which he gave to it of ‘shaking palsy’ is both apt and adequate.
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 406/1 He had a shaking chill followed by a sweat.
1955 Sci. News Let. 20 Aug. 120/2 A drug of the antihistamine class has helped almost half of a group of patients suffering with the Parkinson syndrome, best known to the layman as shaking palsy.
c. Shaking Quaker n. = shaker n. 4b.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > Quaker sects and groups > [noun] > Shaker > person
shaker1784
Shaking Quaker1784
1784 Mass. Spy 1 Jan. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) The people in the Western part of this State, who stile themselves Shaking Quakers.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. I. 114 I had intended to..proceed from thence to New Lebanon to visit the Shaking Quakers.
d. quasi-adv.
ΚΠ
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 240 What a lot of rattling bullocks, shaking fat too.
Derivatives
ˈshakingly adv.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adverb] > shakingly
shakingly1889
1889 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 438 ‘Tell her, please, Bryan’, I say, shakingly.
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