Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shack"
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) 1.7 (wn)
shack
n : small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: {hovel}, {hut},
{hutch}, {shanty}]
v 1: make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people
in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These
people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted";
"The plains are sparsely populated" [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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