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Shaker   /ʃˈeɪkər/   Listen
Shaker

noun
1.
A person who wields power and influence.  Synonym: mover and shaker.  "Movers and shakers in the business world"
2.
A member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world.
3.
A container in which something can be shaken.



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"Shaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was nineteen Daddy used to be so afraid I would be stolen away from him that he would almost lie in wait for young men with a shotgun. After I passed twenty-four he began meeting them at the gate with a box of cigars in one hand and a shaker full ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

... the cool, geranium-scented hall. She pointed to an easy-chair by the side of which was set, on a small mahogany table, a silver cocktail shaker and two glasses. ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... 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. Rebecca sat silent with a book after the dinner dishes were washed, and when it was nearly five asked if she ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... Banshee, and she hobbled back to the fire to resume her work. She looked in a recipe book, stirred, clapped her hands, sang hair-raising incantations in a quavery voice, and added a pinch of salt and sulfur. She sprinkled spices from a shaker, waved her wand, popped in a dead toad, and fanned up the fire ...
— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd

... knocked at the door and King Alfonso rose and answered. He returned with odd looking implements in his hands which I soon discovered to be an enormous silver cocktail shaker and two goblets. After a dexterous shake, the King poured out two large cocktails, saying, "I understand that you American gentlemen always ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... rose. It is to be hoped that she did not know how she looked. Otherwise there would have been no excuse for her and she should have been summarily haled to the nearest justice, with all other breakers of the peace, and condemned to good conduct and Shaker bonnets for the rest of her life. The rose on the hat, with such a rose of a face beneath the hat, was sheer ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley

... I've heern yet!" she ejaculated, as she took off her shaker bonnet. "They say they're goin' up to their aunt Hitty's to stay two days. They're dressed in their best, clean to the skin, for I looked; 'n' it's their night gownds they've got in the bundle. They say little Mote has gone ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

... even godlike Polyphemus whose power is mightiest amongst all the Cyclopes. His mother was the nymph Thoosa, daughter of Phorcys, lord of the unharvested sea, and in the hollow caves she lay with Poseidon. From that day forth Poseidon the earth-shaker doth not indeed slay Odysseus, but driveth him wandering from his own country. But come, let us here one and all take good counsel as touching his returning, that he may be got home; so shall Poseidon let go his displeasure, ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.



Words linked to "Shaker" :   christian, castor, Shakers, soul, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, person, someone, somebody, individual, container, salt shaker, pepper box, mortal, mover and shaker, caster, ground-shaker, saltshaker, pepper pot, shake



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