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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



... favorite stand on the upper-boat deck, where the wireless shack was situated, with one hand wrapped loosely about a davit guy, the other thoughtfully rattling a cluster of keys in ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... or two later the old prospector's shack burned down, and the next morning he found a notice pinned to a tree near one of his sluice-boxes. It was a polite invitation for him to put distance between him and the Timanyoni district. I suppose you can put two and ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde
... and see that food not consumed one day is utilized later—waste bread for bread pudding, for example. 4. See that doors close properly, that windows are screened and roof is tight—allow no flies. 5. Have floors, tables and refrigerators scrubbed daily. 6. Have the ground around the mess shack raked and thoroughly policed. Towels hung out to dry must be so hung as not to fall to the ground. Raked ground does not allow flies to build undisturbed. 7. Taste the coffee and look in the coffee bins. 8. Inspect pans, knives, meat grinder ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
... boy, so said his mother, and a B student. He was only 17, but had died of an overdose of barbiturates on August 22, 1970 in a shack that he and his drug addicted friends had built on a side street in Hopewell, New York. In the midst of "rock music" he and his friends "smoked marijuana" ...
— The Key To Peace • A. Marie Miles
... up an abandoned shack over on the bottoms, the postmaster at Millville told Bart, and lived by fishing, hunting and their depredations ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman


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