shaker

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

• noun One that shakes.
• noun One that impels, encourages, or supervises action.
• noun A container used for shaking.
• noun A container used to mix or blend by shaking.
• noun A member of a Christian sect originating in England in 1747, practicing communal living and observing celibacy.
• adjective Relating to or constituting a style produced by Shakers that is distinctively simple, unornamented, functional, and finely crafted.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who or that which shakes.
• noun Specifically, any mechanical contrivance for shaking: as, a carpet- shaker.
• noun [capitalized] A member of a religious denomination founded in Manchester, Englancd, about the middle of the eighteenth century: so called, popularly, from the agitations or movements which form part of their ceremonial.
• noun The quaking-grass
• noun A breed of domestic pigeons. See pigeon, 1 .

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

• noun A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
• noun One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
• noun (Zoöl.) A variety of pigeon.

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

• noun A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
• noun A variety of pigeon.
• noun One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
• noun A musical percussion instrument filled with any of various granular solids used to produce a rhythmyc sound when shaken.

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

• noun a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world
• noun a container in which something can be shaken
• noun a person who wields power and influence