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Shack   /ʃæk/   Listen
noun
Shack  n.  A small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin. (Colloq.)


Shack  n.  
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.) "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."
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.


verb
Shack  v. t.  
1.
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. (Prev.Eng.)





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"Shack" Quotes from Famous Books



... river drowned the sound of the shots; the man in the hut across the stream did not come to the door. But McKay caught sight of the shack; his fierce eyes questioned the ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... the last bite of a hot frankfurter he had bought at a roadside shack on the highway and was now more ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... some of the boys up here to help me hoe out a little. Dell ain't used to roughing it; she's just out of a medical school—got her diploma, she was telling me in the last letter before this. She'll be finding microbes by the million in this old shack. You tell Patsy I'll be late to supper—and tell him to brace up and cook something ladies like—cake and stuff. Patsy'll know. I'd give a dollar to get that ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
... generous way of puttin' things," said Nick. "And it was walkin' along toward you, brought up these fairy-book thoughts so strong. My land's all right, though my house is a shack and I haven't got any flower-garden except in my head. But over here is another world; and I was sayin' to myself, how I owe the biggest things of my life to you. True, I was taking out my wages in calves while the boss was alive, and he was lettin' me put my brand on 'em by the hundred. But ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... fellows, in that dream I walked around that old jacal all night in my shirt sleeves, and it raining pitchforks. A number of times I peeped in through the window or door, and there sat the cat on the hearth, in full possession of the shack, and me out in the weather. Once when I looked in he was missing, but while I was watching he sprang through a hole in the roof, alighting in the fire, from which he walked out gingerly, shaking his feet as if he had just been out in the wet. I shot away every cartridge ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams


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