desrick

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Originally an Appalachian and North Carolinian dialectal term.[1]

Noun[edit]

desrick (plural desricks)

  1. (US) A roughly built cabin or shanty.
    • 2009, Derek Brereton, Campsteading, →ISBN:
      The camp building has a few notable quirks: […] a door cut straight from the wall, a wide sliding barn door between porch and dining room, outbuildings that look like Appalachian desricks, […]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927)

Anagrams[edit]

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