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.