1 gen 1686 anni - shake

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The noun is used of a fissure or cleft in timber which developed during a tree’s growth. 1686 <i>boards without either shake or sappe or any other thing which may be thought to be hurtfull</i>, Conistone (RW33). The condition is considered to be a defect and was so described by the Lepton horticulturist William Pontey in The Forest Pruner (1805). Under the heading <i>Shaken Timber (or what we call Wind Shakes</i>) he gave some credence to the view that such cracks might be wind damage but cautioned against thinking that might be the only cause. A North Riding document also gives it as a defect: <i>a</i>.1660 <i>many old doterelles … decayed and shaken trees</i>, Wheeldale (NRR1/81). It could also refer to the harm caused by coal-getting, both underground and on the surface: 1683 <i>the grounds are so shaken and spoyled by the undermining thereof and by the coal slack and rubbish that lye upon the same that little or no profit can ever be made</i>, Whitkirk (YAJ36/331).

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