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A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack .
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
* 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA]
(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
* Henry Ward Beecher
(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun shack
is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin or shack can be (obsolete) grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.As a verb shack
is to live in or with; to shack up or shack can be (obsolete) to shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.shack
English
(wikipedia shack)Etymology 1
Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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, […]}}
Etymology 2
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .Noun
(-)- [...] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack .
- (Forby)
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
Derived terms
* common of shackVerb
(en verb)- (Grose)
- first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
Anagrams
*References
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
