shock
/ʃɔk/ sustantivo C2- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
- A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass. · His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
Plural shocks
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As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
At this moment the boat came to a landing with a violent shock.
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
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