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shake † 
n. a large unplaned shingle, usually hand-split, used for roofing and siding.
- 1898 (1966) Murton . . . got at the building while Kirkendale split and dressed jack-pine shakes: "940 shakes was my record day."
- 1922 Presently she heard him, wrenching furiously at the loose flimsy cedar "shakes" of which the shack was built. . . .
- 1963 Giant beams, fifty feet long, were swung onto the ceiling frame and a roofing of long cedar shakes laid over them.
- 1898 (1966) Murton . . . got at the building while Kirkendale split and dressed jack-pine shakes: "940 shakes was my record day."