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shaker

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shak·er  (shkr)
n.
1.
a. One that shakes: a shaker of long-held beliefs and traditions.
b. One that impels, encourages, or supervises action.
2.
a. A container used for shaking: salt and pepper shakers.
b. A container used to mix or blend by shaking: a cocktail shaker.
3. Shaker A member of a Christian sect originating in England in 1747, practicing communal living and observing celibacy.
adj. also Shaker
Relating to or constituting a style produced by Shakers that is distinctively simple, unornamented, functional, and finely crafted: Shaker furniture.

shaker [ˈʃeɪkə]
n
1. a person or thing that shakes
2. a container, often having a perforated top, from which something, such as a condiment, is shaken
3. a container in which the ingredients of alcoholic drinks are shaken together

Shaker - The Shakers got their name from the shaking and convulsive movements they made during worship.
See also related terms for shaking.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.shaker - a person who wields power and influence; "a shaker of traditional beliefs"; "movers and shakers in the business world"
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
2.Shaker - a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world
Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing - a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States
Christian - a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
3.shaker - a container in which something can be shaken
caster, castor - a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar
cocktail shaker - a shaker for mixing cocktails
container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
pepper box, pepper shaker, pepper pot - a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper
salt shaker, saltshaker - a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt
Translations
shaker [ˈʃeɪkəʳ] N (= cocktail shaker) → coctelera f
shaker
n (= cocktail shaker)Mixbecher m, → Shaker m; (= flour/salt shaker)Mehl-/Salzstreuer m
shaker [ˈʃeɪkəʳ] n
a. (also cocktail shaker) → shaker m inv
b. (also salt shaker) → spargisale m inv, saliera


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We had yet five days to spare before embarking for England, and I had a great desire to see 'the Shaker Village,' which is peopled by a religious sect from whom it takes its name.
Greedily sucking in this intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the white whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible.
There had been company at the brick house to the bountiful Thanksgiving dinner which had been provided at one o'clock,--the Burnham sisters, who lived between North Riverboro and Shaker Village, and who for more than a quarter of a century had come to pass the holiday with the Sawyers every year.
 
 
 
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