Talk:shaky

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Rfv-sense "Full of shakes or cracks; cracked." What does it mean, anyway? Can a shake as a noun mean the same as a crack? --Duncan MacCall 19:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Looks like we're missing a sense at shake. Chambers says it's "a fissure or crack (esp in rock or in growing timber)"; thence "shaky, full of cracks or clefts". Equinox 19:12, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
A modern relic of that might be the sense of "shingle", but certainly seems obsolete in the US. DCDuring TALK 19:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
I certainly remember my woodwork teacher talking about buying wood which does not have any shakes. So still in use in UK AFAIK. -- ALGRIF talk 14:41, 8 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I just googled "shakes in wood": 52 hits, and they look good, so apparently we miss this sense under shake as Equinox proposed. However, I still can't find enough examples for "shaky", though it seems a logical derivative. --Duncan MacCall 01:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

This could be finessed by a catch-all definition at shaky like "characterised by ]s or ]" for one of the senses. DCDuring TALK 11:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well in the end I did some research, added the missing sense at shake, cited the sense in question at shaky, removed the rfv tag and now I'm crossing this off. --Duncan 06:20, 13 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

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