shack

adj

Etymology: From shagged or shagged out.

1. Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”).

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).

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

   “[…] 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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.”

4. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

   “Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.”

   “All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.”

5. Bait that can be picked up at sea.
6. A drink, especially an alcoholic one.

verb

Etymology: Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).

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

   “They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.”

   “[…] 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.”

3. To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
4. To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
5. To drink, especially alcohol.