noun
- a set of staves and headings for assembling a barrel or cask
Usage: cooperage; technical
Examples
- The cooper ordered several shooks to make new wine barrels.
- Shooks are shipped flat and assembled at the destination.
- The warehouse stored hundreds of shooks for the distillery.
- Each set of shooks includes the wooden staves and metal hoops.
- The barrel maker carefully selected quality shooks for the whiskey casks.