Shack
v. t.
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To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.]
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To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.]
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To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]
Shack
n.
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a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.]
Shack
n.
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The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]
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Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]
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A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.
Phrases & Compounds
- Common of shack
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the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.