ppl. a. [f. WIND sb.1 + shaken, str. pa. pple. of SHAKE v.]
1. Shaken or agitated by the wind.
c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xi. 7. A windschaken reed.
1553. Respublica (Brandl), V. x. 28. Baggs tottering looce abought me like windshaken rags.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. ii. 117. The Oake not to be winde-shaken.
1644. Prerog. Anatomized, 7. All the trees were wind-shaken, and those that were not fast rooted, fell.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., lviii. 545. The fast-flitting clouds, the breezy grass, the wind-shaken foliage and the white-crested waves, all were emblems of life.
1876. Swinburne, Poems & Ball., Ser. II. Forsaken Garden, iii. The weeds wind-shaken.
2. Of timber: Affected with wind-shake. Also fig.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Rima, To be wyndeshaken as tymber is.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xlv. 5. God doo oftentymes tumble them downe from their wyndshaken and rotten seeges.
1611. Middleton & Dekker, Roaring Girl, H. Some poore winde-shaken gallant.
1668. Clarendon, Vind. Tracts (1727), 33. The middle of every piece was wind-shaken and rotten.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 387. The discharging Trees of unthrifty broken wind-shaken Boughs.
1866. Treas. Bot., Anemosis, the condition known in timber by the name of wind shaken.
