Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHOCK, n. [D. schok, a bounce, jolt or leap; Fr. choc, a striking or dashing against. See Shake.]

1. A violent collision of bodies, or the concussion which it occasions; a violent striking or dashing against. The strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks / Of tides and seas. – Blackmore.
2. Violent onset; conflict of contending armies or foes. He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. – Addison.
3. External violence; as, the shocks of fortune. – Addison.
4. Offense; impression of disgust. Fewer shocks a statesman gives his friend. – Young.
5. In electricity, the effect on the animal system of a discharge of the fluid from a charged body.
6. A pile of sheaves of wheat, rye, &c. And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. – Tusser. Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks. Thomson.
7. In New England, the number of sixteen sheaves of wheat, rye, &c. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used with us.]
8. A dog with long rough hair or shag. [from shag.]