What does shack mean?
Shack means A crude, roughly built hut or cabin..
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/ʃæk/ · noun
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, […]
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.
They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.
Use shack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shack means A crude, roughly built hut or cabin..
Common synonyms include hovel, shanty, camp, trudge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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