Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, dwell, hovel, hut, hutch, inhabit, live, people, populate, reside, shanty, trail, trudge

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

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