shake†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large unplaned shingle, usually hand-split, used for roofing and siding.

Quotations

1898

Murton . . . got at the building while Kirkendale split and dressed jack-pine shakes: "940 shakes was my record day."

1922

Presently she heard him, wrenching furiously at the loose flimsy cedar "shakes" of which the shack was built. . . .

1963

Giant beams, fifty feet long, were swung onto the ceiling frame and a roofing of long cedar shakes laid over them.