2. Verb. (third-person singular of shack) ¹
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Definition of Shacks
1. shack [v] - See also: shack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shacks
Literary usage of Shacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tuberculosis in Massachusetts by Edwin Allen Locke (1908)
"... it became necessary to build small "shacks" to accommodate the increased number
of patients. It is believed that this was the first effort to bring the ..."
2. Old Glory and the Gospel in the Philippines: Notes Gathered During by Alice Byram Condict (1901)
"NIPA shacks. Like the birds and squirrels, these native people of the poorer
classes build their ... Nestled among such surroundings are the "nipa shacks. ..."
3. Consumption, Its Relation to Man and His Civilization, Its Prevention and Cure by John Bessner Huber (1906)
"shacks at Muskoka. to their own homes and communities in spreading intelligent
information of proper sanatory and hygienic methods ..."
4. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1904)
"I found the streets mostly overgrown with grass and weeds, the vacant lots studded
with abandoned poles, ruins of former shacks, ..."
5. Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties by Charles Frederick Weller, Eugenia Winston Weller (1909)
"FIVE HUNDRED shacks HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED BUT THEIR NUMBER is STILL LARGE.
FRAME DWELLINGS DEGENERATE INTO SHANTIES. Suffering with typhoid fever, ..."
6. Pastor Halloft: A Story of Clerical Life (1918)
"Large numbers of the "foreigners" were employed by the railway company, and they
had built shacks all along the road where they were housed for the time ..."
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