Shack

Definition of Shack

v. t.1.To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
2.To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
3.To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
n.1.a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin.
1.The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
2.Liberty of winter pasturage.
3.A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
- H. W. Beecher.
These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.
- D. C. Worcester.
Common of shack
(Eng.Law) the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
- Cowell.

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