資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shake \Shake\, n.
   1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering
      motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling,
      quaking, or shivering; agitation.

            The great soldier's honor was composed Of thicker
            stuff, which could endure a shake.    --Herbert.

            Our salutations were very hearty on both sides,
            consisting of many kind shakes of the hand.
                                                  --Addison.

   2. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried
      too suddenly. --Gwilt.

   3. A fissure in rock or earth.

   4. (Mus.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with
      another represented on the next degree of the staff above
      or below it; a trill.

   5. (Naut.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken
      apart. --Totten.

   6. A shook of staves and headings. --Knight.

   7. (Zo["o]l.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of
      its head while on the ground. [Prov. Eng.]

   {No great shakes}, of no great importance. [Slang] --Byron.

   {The shakes}, the fever and ague. [Colloq. U.S.]