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shack |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shack \Shack\, v. t. [Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See {Shake}.] 1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. 2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.] 3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.] 1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A shiftless fellow; a low itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W. Beecher. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. {Shack}, v. i.] A hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.] These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. --D. C. Worcester. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shack n : small crude dwelling [syn: {hovel}, {hut}, {hutch}, {shanty}] v 1: make one's home or live in "There are only 250,000 people in Island" [syn: {dwell}, {reside}, {live}, {inhabit}, {people}, {populate}] 2: to walk or proceed draggingly, slowly: "Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as John trudged toward St Peter's." [syn: {trail}, {trudge}]
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