shook

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A set of parts for assembling a barrel or packing box.
2. v. Past tense of shake.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Preterit of shake.
2. n. A set of staves and headings sufficient for one hogshead, barrel, or the like, prepared for use and bound up in a compact form for convenience of transport. Boards for boxes prepared or fitted for use and packed in the same way bear the same name.
3. To pack in shooks.
4. n. Same as shock, 1.
5. n. A double-pointed hook with the points turned in opposite directions.

Wiktionary

1. n. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
2. v. To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
3. v. Simple past of shake.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of shake.
2. n. A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
3. n. A set of boards for a sugar box.
4. n. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
5. v. To pack, as staves, in a shook.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment