shook

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A set of parts for assembling a barrel or packing box.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A set of staves and headings sufficient for one hogshead, barrel, or the like, prepared for use and bound up in a compact form for convenience of transport.
• To pack in shooks.
• noun Preterit of shake.
• noun Same as shock, 1.
• noun A double-pointed hook with the points turned in opposite directions.

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

• imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of shake.
• transitive verb To pack, as staves, in a shook.
• noun A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
• noun A set of boards for a sugar box.
• noun The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

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

• noun A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
• verb To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
• verb Simple past of shake.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment