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/ʃæk/
Noun
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
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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, […]
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
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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.
The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
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Verb
To live (in or with); to shack up.
Noun
Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
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Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
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Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
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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 have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
1996, J M Neeson, Commoners The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
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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.
Bait that can be picked up at sea.
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A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
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Verb
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
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To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
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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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[…] 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.
To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
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To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
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To drink, especially alcohol.
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Noun
small crude shelter used as a dwelling
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Verb
make one's home in a particular place or community
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my parents reside in Florida
move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
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John trailed behind his class mates
The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart