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wind-shaken, ppl. a.|ˈwɪndˌʃeɪk(ə)n|
[f. wind n.1 + shaken, str. pa. pple. of shake v.]
1. Shaken or agitated by the wind.
c1550Cheke Matt. xi. 7 A windschaken reed. 1553Respublica (Brandl) v. x. 28 Baggs tottering looce abought me like windshaken rags. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. ii. 117 The Oake not to be winde-shaken. 1644Prerog. Anatomized 7 All the trees were wind-shaken, and those that were not fast rooted, fell. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. lviii, The wind-shaken foliage. 1876Swinburne Poems & Ball. Ser. ii. Forsaken Garden iii, The weeds wind-shaken.
2. Of timber: Affected with wind-shake. Also fig.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Rima, To be wyndeshaken as tymber is. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlv. 5 God doo oftentymes tumble them downe from their wyndshaken and rotten seeges. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl H, Some poore winde-shaken gallant. 1668Clarendon Vind. Tracts (1727) 33 The middle of every piece was wind-shaken and rotten. 1707Mortimer Husb. 387 The discharging Trees of unthrifty broken wind-shaken Boughs. 1866Treas. Bot., Anemosis, the condition known in timber by the name of wind shaken. |