Meaning of Shack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
2. Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. A surname.
4. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
5. Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
   slang
7. Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
   UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
9. Bait that can be picked up at sea.
   countable, uncountable
10. A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
    Nigeria, countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“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, […]”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

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