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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the condition of being wind-shaken; a condition of the timber of exogenous trees, in which the annual layers are separated from one another by the action, it is supposed, of strong gales.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a shake in timber caused by high winds

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