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Word entry · 5 letters

shack

Best crossword clue

"Rough cabin"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃæk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted achksStarts with SEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2H3A4C5K

Definitions

  1. move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly

Word origin

Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.

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