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单词 shack
释义 shack
I. \ˈshak\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: English dialect shack to shake, alteration of shake (I)
1. dialect chiefly England : grain and stubble left on the field after harvest
2. : liberty or right of turning pigs or poultry into fields after harvest to feed on the shack; also : the land so used
3. : a catch of miscellaneous fish mostly of cheap kinds
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: perhaps by shortening & alteration from shakerag
1. chiefly dialect : a shiftless fellow : bum, tramp
2. slang : a railroad brakeman
III. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to go sluggishly or with a lumbering gait
 < the old horse shacked along >
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably back-formation from shackly
1. : a small roughly built and often crudely furnished house : hut, shanty
 < a shack made of old boards and tar paper — C.M.Webster >
 < found inadequate shelter in a grass shack — E.E.Shipton >
 < the camps, with their close-serried shacks of tarpaulin, plywood, oilcloth strips, cardboard — Han Suyin >
2. : a room or similar enclosed structure for a particular person or thing
 < an ammunition shack >
 < a cook's shack >
 < a guard's shack >
 < the operator's shack on a crane >
 < a radio shack >
V. intransitive verb
1. : live, dwell
 < the schoolhouse had been originally put up for the sawmill hands to shack in — Clifton Johnson >
2. slang : shack up
VI. transitive verb
Etymology: perhaps alteration of shag (VII)
: chase, retrieve
 < he'd shack us away a half-dozen times a night — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union >
 < shack a baseball >
VII.
dialect
variant of shuck
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