Shock
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
SHOCK, sb.1 and v.1 In gen. dial. and colloq. use in Sc. and Eng. Also in forms shook War.3; shuck ne.Yks. Midl. Nhp.2 War. Wor. Nrf. [ʃok.] 1. sb. A pile of sheaves varying in number, set up endwise in the field to dry; in gen. colloq. use. Slk. Standing in tight shocks, Hogg Tales (1838) 48, ed. 1866. Nhb.1 Rows of shock and gait. n.Yks. Ten or twelve sheaves, Tuke Agric. (1800) 115. ne.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II.40. w.Yks. Twelve sheaves of corn, Willan List Wds. (1811). Midl. Twelve sheaves of corn, set up in the field, Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II. Not. (J.H.B.), Nhp.2 War.3 Eight sheaves. ne.Wor. (J.W.P.) Hrf. Twelve sheaves, Bound Provinc. (1876). Brks.1 Bdf. Beans are also said to be collected into shocks when they have been reaped instead of mown (J.W.B.). Hrt. Contains fifteen sheaves, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) VI. i. 25. w.Mid. (W.P.M.), Cmb.1 Nrf. I pitched on the two shooves to make up the shuck ─ that be twenty shooves, Emerson Son of Fens (1892) 146. Suf. In forming the shocks, or stooks, they use no precaution against rain, merely setting ten or a dozen together, Marshall Review (1811) III. 437; Suf.1 Ken.1 I see that the wind has blowed down some shocks in that field of oats. w.Ken. When it was the custom to take tithes in kind a shock always consisted of ten sheaves, one of which belonged to the tithe owner. Now the number of sheaves in a shock is uncertain, but if I wanted ten sheaves I should say ‘a tithing shock’ (W.F.S.). Hmp. Twelve sheaves, Holloway; Hmp.1, I.W.1, Dor.1, nw.Dev.1
Comp. (1) Shock-fork, a large three-tined fork, used in gathering barley and clover into heaps for the ‘pitchers'; (2) Shock-shower, a slight shower in harvest; one which just wets the ‘shocks.’ (1) Suf. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863). (2) Hmp. (J.R.W.), Hmp.1
v. To arrange the sheaves in ‘shocks’; gen. with up. Slk. In the shocking, the corn-knots were all set outermost, Hogg Tales (1838) 48, ed. 1866. n.Lin.1, Oxf.1, Brks.1 w.Mid. Go and shock up that wheat after the binder (W.P.M.). Nrf. We finished cutting, tying and shocking the wheat, Longman's Mag. (1899) 233. Suf.1 Shockin the shooves. Som. Well cut! well bound! well shocked! Raymond No Soul (1899) 83. [1. Schokke, of corne; congelima (Prompt.).]
Source : A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the County of Kent
