Shack, n.
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.]
All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W. Beecher.
These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. --D. C. Worcester.
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.
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