DCHP-1 Online
shanty tea Obs. 
the potent, black, tea brewed by the shantymen, characterized by its souplike consistency.
- 1854 Shanty tea is as unlike the delicate infusion over which ladies are said to imbibe such nice discrimination of character, as the oil of peppermint is to the essence.
- 1854 Shanty tea is as unlike the delicate infusion over which ladies are said to imbibe such nice discrimination of character, as the oil of peppermint is to the essence.