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lumber shanty Hist. 
1 a specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers. [ See picture at shanty (def. 1 b).]
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1 b)
- 1853 The lumber-shanty differs both in size and shape, being much larger, and the roof sloping both ways, with a raised hearth in the centre of the floor, with an aperture directly above for the escape of the smoke. It has no window. One door at the end, and two tier of bed berths, one above the other, complete the tout ensemble.
- 1863 It proceeded from the lumber shanty; a long, windowless log-hut with a door at one end, a perpetual fire in the centre, on a large open hearth of stones; the chimney, a hole in the roof. Along both sides and the farther end was a sort of dais, or low platform of unhewn trees laid close together, and supporting the "bunks," or general bed, of spruce boughs and blankets.
- 1923 They . . . in summer camped in lumber shanties. . . .
2 a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.
See also: logging (def. 2) shanty ((n.)) (def. 2a)
- 1883 Grey backs [lice] of "prodigious size" are said to form a source of amusement in a certain lumber shanty in the Shell River Country.
- 1910 . . . I've railroaded and worked in lumber shanties.
- 1967 During the four months of winter snow the men frequently worked at a lumber shanty for wages of £2.10s.0d. a month. . . .
- 1853 The lumber-shanty differs both in size and shape, being much larger, and the roof sloping both ways, with a raised hearth in the centre of the floor, with an aperture directly above for the escape of the smoke. It has no window. One door at the end, and two tier of bed berths, one above the other, complete the tout ensemble.