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Answer for the clue "Small, poorly made house ", 5 letters:
shack

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Word definitions for shack in dictionaries

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Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.] The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.] Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; ...

Usage examples of shack.

CIC, ready rooms, wardrooms, chiefs quarters, berth- ing spaces, in aerology, the radio shack, on the hangar deck, all through the ship the men waited.

There, they ate lunch at a seafood shack on Almar Avenue, with outdoor tables, and went for a long walk along West Cliff Drive and out onto the ocean view point before heading back into San Francisco.

Listeners could picture the years wherein Chardon and Dokey had worked underground from the old shack to tap the real vein of the Aureole Mine.

CHAPTER XVI DEATH REVERSED ITCH FENDEL was seated in the inner room of the hillside shack reading the note that Marcus Beld had sent him.

She wrote little about herself, but went into raptures about the great city, about its reviving ruins, about the women, girls and youths who had come here from all parts of the country to rebuild the city, living in cellars, gun emplacements, blindages and bunkers left after the fighting, and in railway cars, plywood shacks and dug-outs.

She jumped down from the buckboard and ran into the shack, moving with surprising agility for a woman so tall.

He could have gone to live in those old Campana shacks at the east end if he wanted to.

The ceilidh was being held in a barnlike shack falling to rack and ruin down in the midst of the mangrove swamps festering about the mouth of the Dungloe River.

I found a message that Sherry had gone to visit Missus Chubby when I arrived back at the shack, so I went out on to the veranda with a cold beer.

Burr sat hunched over the table in the cook shack, his stomach empty and grumbling, his hands circling the mug of hot coffee while he waited for Codger to cook the refried beans and eggs.

I happen to have a colander of my own, which came with the shack and has been lying fallow all this time.

President of the United States is a loony and that instead of simply being shacked up someplace with a cooch dancer the Secretary of Mental Health is back in Vienna in the late 19th Century.

Jules had taken Miguel, Sancho and Culler with him to check on the line shacks and watering holes.

Tech Area: physicists from the cyclotron shack, soldiers from the boiler house, doctors from the medical labs, office clerks and, in front, the Indians who swept every building.

Don Gately as they pass on the crowded street, Don Gately, like pretty much all heterosexual drug addicts, has within a couple blocks mentally wooed, shacked up with, married and had kids by that female, all in the future, all in his head, mentally dandling a young Gately on his mutton-joint knee while this mental Mrs.