(shok) noun
1. A violent collision or concussion; impact; blow.
2. A sudden and violent sensation, as if causing one to shake or tremble; a stroke: a shock of paralysis.
3. A sudden agitation of the mind; startling emotion.
4. Pathol. Prostration of bodily functions, as from sudden injury.
5. The passage of a strong electric current through the body, or the phenomena it produces: characterized by involuntary muscular contractions. See synonyms under BLOW, COLLISION.
—v.t.
1. To shake by sudden collision; jar; give a shock to.
2. To disturb the emotions or mind of; horrify; disgust.
3. To encounter with hostile intent; meet with sudden encounter.
—v.i.
4. Archaic To come into violent contact; collide. [<F choc <choquer <Gmc. Cf. MDu. schokken collide.]

(shok) noun
A number of sheaves of grain, stalks of maize, or the like, stacked for drying upright in a field.
—v.t. & v.i. To gather (grain) into a shock or shocks. [ME schokke <Gmc. Cf. MLG schok.]
—shock′er noun

(shok) adjective
Shaggy; bushy.
—noun
1. A coarse, tangled mass, as of hair.
2. A dog with a woolly coat. [? Var. of SHAG]