Shack
Definitions
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- A surname.
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
- Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- Bait that can be picked up at sea.
- A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
Equivalents
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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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