The third largest Great Lake has a water surface area of 22,300 square miles, and it contains numerous islands, notably the Beaver Island archipelago and the North and South Manitou Islands off the coast of the Little Finger area of Michigan's mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula.
Shacked definition, to chase and throw back; to retrieve: to shack a ground ball. See more.
1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli wooden hut.. Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly shaky, rickety (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle. Slang meaning house attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who hole up for the winter; from 1927 as to put up for the night; phrase shack up cohabit first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).