Shack vs Hutch - What's the difference?

Shack is a related term of hutch.

As nouns the difference between shack and hutch

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 hutch is a cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.

As verbs the difference between shack and hutch

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 hutch is to hoard or lay up, in a chest.

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

hutch

English

Noun

(es)

A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.

* 1960 , , chapter 16,

To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled

A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.

A measure of two Winchester bushels.

(mining) The case of a flour bolt.

(mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

A jig for washing ore.

Verb

To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

* Milton

She hutched the ore.

(mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.