(v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
(n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
(n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
(2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
(5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
(8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
(10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
(11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
(12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
(14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
(15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
(16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
(19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.
Shanty
Definition:
(a.) Jaunty; showy.
(n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
(v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(2) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Housing First makes a proper roof the first priority ... a homeless shanty near the GM building in Detroit, Michigan.
(4) Carers of children in the New Shanty area were the least likely to know of the need for measles vaccination and to be visited by a community health worker.
(5) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(6) At my American college the entire main campus was filled with shanty towns protesting apartheid.
(7) A poverty-stricken nation of shanty towns 50 years ago, it has become the world’s number one city and is aiming to be the world’s first smart nation .
(8) "There are parts out there which have basically turned into shanty towns," he said, pointing in the direction of Jaywick, a council ward which earned the unhappy distinction in 2010 of being placed first in the UK's Indices of Multiple Deprivation, a government report which ranks neighbourhoods using statistics for income, employment, health, disability, crime and living standards.
(9) It really comes to something when the UN special investigator on housing, more familiar with shanty towns and favelas, has expressed herself so fiercely on the subject of the UK bedroom tax .
(10) From there they moved to a neighbouring shanty, the Favela das Imbuias, where Criolo spent the first five years of his life.
(11) But she needs to be able to frame the conversation around her own assumptions – that this housing would represent a radical, even beautiful new future – rather than his: that it would be a shanty town thrown up with plywood.
(12) The basic child-health problems in the shanty towns of Lima are protein-calorie malnutrition and infectious disease.
(13) A survey of 428 households in a shanty town in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, revealed high prevalences of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura.
(14) In Carrefour, a shanty town south of the capital, bodies are being burned in an enormous pile on waste ground near the ocean.
(15) Or as another archaeologist put it: "By comparison, everything else in the area looks like a shanty town."
(16) It feels like somewhere between a kibbutz and a neat but chaotic shanty town.
(17) The city is becoming a shanty town … Worst of all, it is unsafe.
(18) The city, with an estimated five million people, is believed to be the fastest-growing capital in the world and new, illegal shanty towns creep up and over the hillsides every year.
(19) But airport perimeter fences are often surrounded by the worst poverty, such as the shanty towns in Luanda, the Angolan airport from where that last reported Heathrow-bound stowaway flew.
(20) Plesch, alongside Shanti Sattler, initiated the fight for the release of the UN archive in 2007.