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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