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log shanty 
1 a crude hut used as a dwelling by lumbermen in the bush.
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1848 We retraced our steps back to the log shanty where we had stopped.
- 1952 The original log shanties were probably much of the same type, so also were the squared-log houses which followed them.
2 specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers.
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1b and picture)
- 1957 In most camps before the First World War they slept and ate under one roof, in log shanties forty or fifty feet square.
- 1848 We retraced our steps back to the log shanty where we had stopped.