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shack
Noun
  • A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  • Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
Verb
  • To live in or with; to shack up.
Noun
  • Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest. obsolete
  • Nuts which have fallen to the ground. obsolete
  • Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack. obsolete
  • A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Britain, US, dialect, obsolete
Verb
  • To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. obsolete
  • To feed in stubble, or upon waste. obsolete
  • To wander as a vagabond or tramp. Britain, dialect