Meaning of shog | Babel Free

Definitions

jolt, shake (brisk movement)

archaic

Examples

“The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open.”

“Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake.”

“My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term.”

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