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shack
/ʃæk/
noun 8verb 6adj 1name 1
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
tin, wooden | derelict, dilapidated, run-down
PREP
in a /the ~
Definitions
noun
1
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
2
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
3
The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
verb
1
To live (in or with); to shack up.
noun
1
Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
2
Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
3
Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
[…] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
1996, J M Neeson, Commoners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
4
A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.
All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
5
Bait that can be picked up at sea.
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The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state
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The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
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[…] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who
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1996, J M Neeson, Commoners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, an
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Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.
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They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.
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