Anagrams of: SHAKEDOWNS

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail

• an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

• a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar

• sell or offer for sale from place to place

• hunt with hawks

• clear mucus or food from one's throat

• diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail

• an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

• a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar

• sell or offer for sale from place to place

• hunt with hawks

• clear mucus or food from one's throat

• a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg

• the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

• cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head

• cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill

• the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

• lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

• a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball

• hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction