Shack vs Caban - What's the difference?
shack | caban |
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 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 .
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
* 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]
(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
* Henry Ward Beecher
(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
(Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow., title=The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1906, author=John Foreman, title=The Philippine Islands, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Eusebio Mazorca further states: [105]--"The Governor receives payment of the tribute in rice-paddy, which he credits to the native at two reales in silver per caban . }}
As nouns the difference between shack and caban
is that shack is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin while caban is a grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.As a verb shack
is to live in or with; to shack up.shack
English
(wikipedia shack)Etymology 1
Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
Etymology 2
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .Noun
(-)- [...] 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.
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack .
- (Forby)
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
Derived terms
* common of shackVerb
(en verb)- (Grose)
- 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.
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