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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Schaking, S(c)haikin(g, vbl. n. Also: shak(e)ing. [ME and e.m.E. schakyng, shaking (Wyclif); S(c)hake v.] The action of shaking, in senses 2, 6, 7, 10b, 11b and 12b of S(c)hake v.Also attrib. in schaking time.(1) 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 148.
Thow confessit the schaking and trymbling of the wall alledging onlie it was dogis and cattis that ran on the wall 1650 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. LI 52.
Thair wes such ane quaking and shaking fell vpoun the hous and bed that [etc.](2) 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V 368.
To the thre warkmen in schaiking the skaffaldis of the heiche tolbuith and casting doun the red and carying doun the punscheonis and uther geir 3 s. 1616–17 Montgomery Mem. II 281.
To four men and twa wemen, for thresching, schaiking, and dichting the aitis 1621 Fraserburgh Kirk S. 120b (4 April).
Convict in brek off sabbothe be schaking & making off stray 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 566.
Be cutting, shaiking and stealing of thair nighbours netts, beiruppis and bowes under silence of night 1637 Dumbarton Common Gd. Acc. 94.
For thresthing, schaiking the stray and [etc.] … For the scheiring thairof 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 492.
Tempestuous winds, that all our costs south and north had incredible losse by shakeing Ib. 498.
This was a sad harvest for wind and rain, an incredible shakeing of all cornes 1692 E. Fife Admir. Depute Ct. Bk. 20 Sept.
For being amongst the fleit in night tyme and shakeing and hailling of netts in maner forsaid 1707 Cunningham Diary 26.
When threshin it yeelded about 4 chalder, and lost ne'er a seed with shakingattrib. 1674 Laing MSS 393.
Its a great advantage in this storme and shaiking tyme to be rather a lowe shrubb then a tale cedar(3) a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1260.
Pishing and pintle shaiking puts of the day 1658 R. Moray Lett. fol. 85 (E).
I would be content you had some sharp fitts, so they were the shakings of the tail of your disease(4) 1633 Orkney Bp. Ct. in Dalyell Darker Superst. 451.
[The jury convicted the delinquent of] taking of hir curtch, shaking of hir hair [lous], and Margaret Mudie's diseasfig. 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI 95.
To the schaiking lowse of the haill estate of the cuntrey of Angus(5) 1605 in Melvill 588.
Thair interveinit a great schaiking of the Kirk and brangeling thairof by the divil at that evill synod 16.. Hist. Kennedy 145.
Schaikin(6) 1603 Dundonald Par. Rec. 42.
Violatioun of the Saboth by schaiking and seling fruit thairon