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Meaning: (transitive,also figurative)Toagitatea piece ofclothor other flexible material in order to remove dust, or to try to make it smooth and flat.2019November 20, “Further testing requirements delay Crossrail to 2021”, inRail, page13:Tasks needed to complete Crossrail: [...] Trial run the Class 345s over many thousands of miles on the completed railway toshake outany problems and ensure the highest levels of safety and reliability when passenger service begins.; (nautical,transitive)Tounfurlareeffrom asail1881–1882,Robert Louis Stevenson,Treasure Island, London; Paris:Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883,→OCLC:"Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'llshake outanother reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."; (idiomatic)Toresultortranspire.We are curious to see how this allshakes out.; (sports)Toshakeone's arms or legs, in order to resist musclefatigue.
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