subs. phr. (old cant).—A begging petition: specifically one on account of shipwreck: SHAKE-GLIM = one for fire.
1857–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 233. lhe patterer becomes a “lurker,”—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ill that flesh is heir to. Shipwreck is called a SHAKE LURK.
