Shack vs. Shanty

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.

(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.

(obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.

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

To live (in or with); to shack up.

(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.

To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.

To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.

a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

Liberty of winter pasturage.

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

Example: ‘All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.’; ‘These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.’;

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

make one's home or live in;

Example: ‘She resides officially in Iceland’; ‘I live in a 200-year old house’; ‘These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted’; ‘The plains are sparsely populated’;

move, proceed, or walk draggingly pr slowly;

Example: ‘John trailed behind behis class mates’; ‘The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart’;

a roughly built hut or cabin.

move in or live with someone as a lover

Example: ‘they won't believe I've shacked up with someone so good-looking’;

A shack (or, less often, shanty) is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling. Like huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually rural and made of natural materials (mud, rocks, sticks, etc.) shacks are generally composed of scavenged man-made materials like abandoned construction debris, repurposed consumer waste and other useful discarded objects that can be quickly acquired at little or no cost and fashioned into a small dwelling.

A roughly-built hut or cabin.

A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.

An unlicensed pub.

A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.

Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.

Example: ‘That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.’;

To inhabit a shanty.

Jaunty; showy.

A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.

To inhabit a shanty.

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

a small, crudely built shack.

a song with alternating solo and chorus, of a kind originally sung by sailors while performing physical labour together.