Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHAK-EN, pp. [shak'n.]

1. Impelled with a vacillating motion; agitated.
2. adj. Cracked or split; as, shaken timber. Nor is the wood shaken nor twisted, as those about Capetown. – Barrow. [Our mechanics usually pronounce this shaky, forming word from shake, like pithy from pith.]