Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
(2) - Shack (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
(3) - Shack (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(4) - Shack (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
(5) - Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
(6) - Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

(1) - Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
(2) - Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
(3) - Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
(4) - Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
(5) - Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
(6) - Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
(7) - Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
(8) - Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
(9) - Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
(10) - Shackle (n.) Stubble.

(1) - Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.