Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
Definitioner
Substantiv
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Verb
- To live in or with; to shack up.
- (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
Exempel
- 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, […]
- [...] 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.
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
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