Word Meanings - SHAKEDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to SHAKEDOWN)

• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• SHAKINESS
  Quality of being shaky.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• SHAKO
  A kind of military cap or headress.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• FLOORAGE
  Floor space.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• FLOOR
  That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished,
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.