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Shakedown

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Come and take a shakedown at my house—a bed. The allusion is to the time when men slept upon litter or clean straw. (See below, Shakes.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Shadow
Shadow (To)
Shady
Shafalus
Shafites
Shaft
Shatton (Sir Piercie)
Shah
Shah-pour
Shahzada
Shakedown
Shakers
Shakes
Shakespeare
Shaking Hands
Shaky
Shallow
Shalott (Lady of)
Shambles means benches
Shamrock
Shan Van Voght