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.

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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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