English Dictionary

shock

/ʃɒk/

noun

An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. / (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

The farmer set up a shock of wheat in the field to dry.

意味（1）

An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.

意味（2）

(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

意味（3）

(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)