About The Word Shack
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Shack
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What's The Definition Of Shack?
[n] small crude shelter used as a dwelling
[v] to walk or proceed draggingly, slowly; "Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as John trudged toward St. Peter's." [v] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Shack: domicile | domiciliate | dwell | hovel | hut | hutch | inhabit | live | people | populate | reside | shanty | trail | trudge Related Terms | Find terms related to Shack: See Also | be | bivouac | board | camp | camp out | cohabit | encamp | go | igloo | iglu | live in | live out | locomote | lodge | lodge in | move | neighbor | neighbour | occupy | overpopulate | room | rusticate | shack up | shelter | sleep in | sleep out | tent | travel Shack In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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.] \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. |
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