desrick
English edit
Etymology edit
Originally an Appalachian and North Carolinian dialectal term.[1]
Noun edit
desrick (plural desricks)
- (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
- ^ Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927)