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Shakedown   Listen
noun
Shakedown  n.  A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.





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"Shakedown" Quotes from Famous Books



... which I think equals your best efforts in that line. How it does shake one up! I had some queer travelling when it was at its worst: for the first night we were given a shakedown in a little mountain hospital, which was fearfully cold; and the next night I was put into a newly-built little place, made of planks roughly nailed together, and with just a bed and a ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan


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