Shock

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

To be occupied with making shocks.

A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor; "loss of blood is an important cause of shock"

the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat; "the armies met in the shock of battle"

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's death left him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock"

an instance of agitation of the earth's crust; "the first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch"

collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain"