Shakedown.

Come and take a shakedown at my house—a bed. The allusion is to the time when men slept upon litter or clean straw. (See below, Shakes.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Shadow
Shadow (To)
Shady
Shafalus
Shafites
Shaft
Shatton (Sir Piercie)
Shah
Shah-pour
Shahzada
Shakedown
Shakers
Shakes
Shakespeare
Shaking Hands
Shaky
Shallow
Shalott (Lady of)
Shambles means benches
Shamrock
Shan Van Voght