Found 2 items, similar to Shack.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shack shack n : small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty] shack v 1: make one's home or live in; “She resides officially 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, domicile, domiciliate] 2: move, proceed, or walk draggingly pr slowly; “John trailed behind behis class mates”; “The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart” [syn: trail]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Shack 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.] [1913 Webster] Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Shack, v. i.] a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.] 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.] [1913 Webster] 2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. [1913 Webster] All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W. Beecher. [1913 Webster] These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. --D. C. Worcester. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [1913 Webster]