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shack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
Origin unknown. Some authorities derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).
Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.
Noun
shack (plural shacks)
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
Translations
Verb
shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)
- To live (in or with); to shack up.
Translations
Etymology 2
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
Noun
shack (countable and uncountable, plural shacks)
- (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [2]
- […] 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 [3]
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [2]
- (Britain, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
- 1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Norwood, or Village Life in New England
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
- (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
Derived terms
- common of shack
Verb
shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)
- (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [4]
- […] 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.
- (Britain, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
- (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
References
Anagrams
- hacks, schak
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caban
English
Noun
caban (plural cabans)
- (Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
References
- caban in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Nacba
French
Etymology
From Italian gabbano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.b??/
Noun
caban m (plural cabans)
- reefer jacket
Descendants
- ? German: Caban
Further reading
- “caban” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
caban m pl
- plural of cab
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