Definition of Shooks

1. shook [n] - See also: shook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shooks

shoogied
shoogies
shoogle
shoogled
shoogles
shooglier
shoogling
shoogly
shooi
shooing
shook
shook-up
shook one's head
shook out
shooks (current term)
shool
shoole
shooled
shooles
shooling
shools
shoon
shoops
shoos
shoot-'em-up
shoot-'em-ups
shoot-down
shoot-em-up

Literary usage of Shooks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"EXPORT OF shooks This country is an important exporter of box shooks. ... The following table shows the value of box shooks exported from the United States ..."

2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"ft.2, are consumed every year for boxes, box shooks, crates and fruit and ... In addition this state consumes large quantities of box shooks for the ..."

3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1885)
"The shooks were sent by the Old Colony Railroad Company. ... They sent to the plaintiff a bill of the shooks, and an order to the Old Colony Railroad ..."

4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1885)
"The shooks were sent by the Old Colony Railroad Company. ... They sent to the plaintiff a bill of the shooks, and an order to the Old Colony Railroad ..."

5. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"To start new, erect mill, equip with best machinery, stock and manufacture these shooks it requires an expenditure of over $100000 per mill before a single ..."

6. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1866)
"... considerable quantities of shingles, hoops, rafters, pine and oak timber, frames of houses, masts and spars, shooks, and other products of the forest. ..."

7. American law reports annotated (1920)
"The shingle machine was sold for $75, and euch of the box shooks as the respondent might select out of a miscellaneous lot were sold for $3 per thousand ..."

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