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Shakers   /ʃˈeɪkərz/   Listen
Shakers

noun
1.
A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States.  Synonym: United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.



Shaker

noun
1.
A person who wields power and influence.  Synonym: mover and shaker.  "Movers and shakers in the business world"
2.
A member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world.
3.
A container in which something can be shaken.



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"Shakers" Quotes from Famous Books



... tablespoons $3.75. A gravy ladle costs $1.25. The infinite variety of odd forks and spoons for various uses is best acquired with the other solid silver. Plated ware ought never to serve acids nor top salt shakers, since both acid, and salt when damp, corrode the plating. Solid salt and pepper shakers can be had as low as $1 a pair, cut glass with solid tops for $1 and $1.50. If individual salt dishes are used, they must be accompanied by tiny solid salt spoons at 35 cents ...
— The Complete Home • Various

... And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various

... tea, sugar, jam, matches, go in pry-up tin cans, sold by outfitters (small quantities in mailing tubes), or in common capped tins with tops secured by surgeon's plaster. Get pepper and spices in shaker-top cans, or, if you carry common shakers, cover tops with cloth and snap stout rubber bands ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... seem to have a quick and delicate sense of smell. What ridiculous-looking animals! Swift himself could not have imagined anything nastier than what they practise by the mere impulse of natural genius. Yet the Shakers keep their pigs very clean, and with great advantage. The legion of devils in the herd of swine,—what a scene ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Congressmen; and the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Swedes, the French, the Chinamen, the Greasers; and the Catholics, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, the Baptists, the Spiritualists, the Mormons, the Shakers, the Quakers, the Jews, the Campbellites, the infidels, the Christian Scientists, the Mind-Curists, the Faith-Curists, the train-robbers, the White Caps, the Moonshiners. And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people, the life of the people, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... if you stood up to the long mahogany bar. I turned my back to the rattle of cocktail shakers and chink of glasses, one heel hooked over the replica brass rail, and took a long careful look at the crap tables. There was a job for me at one of them. I began to shut out the distractions of sight and sound. I wanted nothing to ...
— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett



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