shanty

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Sometimes he heard a distant shot, and knew that the man of the shanty was afoot in search of game.

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  1. noun A roughly built, often ramshackle cabin; a shack.
  2. noun Variant of chantey.

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  • We demolished the old shanty, and taking half a dozen of the boards, laid down a track towards the river. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
  • The bed of the wounded Indian was removed to the shanty, and the surgeon sent for The lieutenant and myself went to the Castle to report progress, while the soldiers sought their camp. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
  • The frame for such a shanty is a cross-pole resting on two crotches about six feet high and enough straight poles to make a foundation for the thatch. —  Woodcraft
  • This gives a little more width at front end of shanty, adding space and warmth. —  Woodcraft
  • The pans are replaced in the shanty, the embers are leveled and nearly covered with bits of dry hemlock bark, and the O.W. —  Woodcraft
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shack ·  hovel ·  dwelling ·  hut ·  farmhouse ·  tenement ·  barn ·  shed ·  cot ·  schoolhouse ·  inn ·  farm-house

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shanty:   shanties
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  1. Probably from Canadian French chantier, hut in a lumber camp, from French, timberyard, from Old French, gantry, from Latin canthērius, rafter, nag, from Greek kanthēlios, pack ass.

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  1. Also shawnty, shunty; variant of janty, jaunty, q. v.
  2. Formerly also shantee; origin obscure. It has been variously guessed to be (a) of Irish origin, from Irish sean, old (or sion, weather, storm), + tig, a house; (b) from French chantier, a yard, timber-yard, from Latin canterius, cantherius, a rafter: see cant, cantle; (c) from a supposed F. *chienté, as if literally ‘dog-kennel,’ from chien, a dog: see kennel.
  3. from shanty, n.
  4. Also chantey; prob. from French chanter, sing: see chant.
 

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