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shack

shack is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]
  3. 3.The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. 4.Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]
  5. 5.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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