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Entry 7 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Shack

/shăk/ · IPA /ʃæk/
01 v. t. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  1. 1.
    To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.[Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.
    To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.[Prov. Eng.]
  3. 3.
    To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.[Prev.Eng.]
02 n. a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin.
  1. 1.
    a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin.[Colloq.]
03 n. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  1. 1.
    The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.[Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.
    Liberty of winter pasturage.[Prov. Eng.]
  3. 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.
Phrases & compounds
Common of shack — the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.