Meaning of shake out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To agitate a piece of cloth or other flexible material in order to remove dust, or to try to make it smooth and flat.
   also, figuratively, transitive
2. To unfurl a reef from a sail
   transitive
3. To result or transpire.
   idiomatic
4. To shake one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.

Equivalents

Examples

“Tasks needed to complete Crossrail: [...] Trial run the Class 345s over many thousands of miles on the completed railway to shake out any problems and ensure the highest levels of safety and reliability when passenger service begins.”

“"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'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."”

“We are curious to see how this all shakes out.”

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