shack

UK /ʃæk/ US /ʃæk/
noun 8verb 6adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

2

Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.

3

The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.

verb

1

To live (in or with); to shack up.

noun

1

Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.

2

Nuts which have fallen to the ground.

3

Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.

[…] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.

1996, J M Neeson, Commoners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.

4

A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.

All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.

5

Bait that can be picked up at sea.

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