Shack vs Cave - What's the difference?

As a noun shack

is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin or shack can be (obsolete) grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.

As a verb shack

is to live in or with; to shack up or shack can be (obsolete) to shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

As a proper noun cave is

shack

English

(wikipedia shack)

Etymology 1

Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 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, […]}}

Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

Verb

(en verb)

To live in or with; to shack up.

Etymology 2

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(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]

[...] 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 .

(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

(Forby)

* Henry Ward Beecher

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

Derived terms

* common of shack

Verb

(en verb)

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

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

(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.

(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

Anagrams

References

cave

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

* , chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

* {{quote-book, 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln citation

, passage=Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave ; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves,

A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

* {{quote-book, 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, page=45 citation

, passage=These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave )

(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

* {{quote-book, 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page=134 citation

, passage=

(mining) A collapse or cave-in.

* {{quote-book, 1885, (Angelo Heilprin), Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page=79 citation

, passage=The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.}}

The vagina.

* {{quote-book, 1976, (Chester Himes), My Life of Absurdity, page=59 citation

, passage=Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.}}

A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

* {{quote-book, 1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page=125 citation

, passage=Without joining the cave , Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.}}

(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

* Francis Bacon

the cave of the ear

Synonyms

Derived terms

* caveman * cave painting * cavewoman

Verb

(cav)

To surrender.

He caved under pressure.

To collapse.

First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave , then we ran.

To hollow out or undermine.

The levee has been severely caved by the river current.

To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.

I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.

Let's go caving this weekend.

(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.

The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.

(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

* {{quote-book, 1999, Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770, page=319 citation

, passage=As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. }}

(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* block caving * cave in * caver * caving hammer

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Interjection

(en interjection)

(British, public school slang) look out!; beware!

Anagrams

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