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Shack vs Crib - What's the difference?

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Shack is a related term of crib.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between shack and crib

is that shack is (obsolete) to feed in stubble, or upon waste while crib is (obsolete) to steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

As nouns the difference between shack and crib

is that shack is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin or shack can be (obsolete) grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest while crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

As verbs the difference between shack and crib

is that 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 while crib is to place or confine in a crib.

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

    • Anagrams

    *

    References

    crib

    English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.

    • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
    • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
    • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
    • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • * Gauden
    • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

    • Derived terms

    * cribber

    Anagrams

    * *