shack

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

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Noun

shack (plural shacks)

1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

Translations

crude hut

Belarusian: хаціна (be) (chacina) Croatian: koliba (hr) f. Danish: skur, hytte Dutch: hut (nl) f., krot (nl) n. Esperanto: domaĉo (eo) Finnish: vaja (fi), lato (fi), tönö (fi) French: cabanon (fr) m.

Icelandic: kofi (is), skúr (is), hreysi (is) Portuguese: barraco (pt) Russian: лачуга (ru) (lačúga) f., хижина (ru) (xížina) f. Slovak: koliba (sk) Slovene: bajta (sl) Spanish: cambuche m. (Colombia), casa bruja m. (Panama), chabola f. (Spain), champa f. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua), jacal m. (Mexico), rancho m. (Argentina, Venezuela), tugurio m. (Costa Rica)

Verb

shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)

1. To live in or with; to shack up.

Translations

Live in or with

Danish: leve sammen med, sove hos

Etymology 2

Obsolete variant of shake

Noun

shack (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Grain to the ground and left after harvest.
2. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
3. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.

Quotations

						1918 1996
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• 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [1]

  [...] 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 [2]

  The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.

Verb

shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)

1. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
2. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.

Quotations

						1918
ME «	15th c.	16th c.	17th c.	18th c.	19th c.	20th c.	21st c.

• 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [3]

  [...] 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.

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