A vagabond; a low fellow. Ex. 'He's a poor shack of a fellow.' It is provincial in England, and applied in the same way as here.--Craven and Shropshire Glossaries.
·noun Liberty of winter pasturage. II. Shack ·vt To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. III. Shack ·v...
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