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Common of shack

Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.]

  1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]

  2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]

  3. 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.

    These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.
    --D. C. Worcester.

    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.

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common of shack

n. (context UK legal English) The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.