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shanty ((n.)) [< Cdn F chantier, q.v.] 
1a n. Hist. a crude hut used as a dwelling by lumbermen in the bush.
See also: chantie (def. 2) log shanty (def. 1)
- Although the most probable source of shanty is Cdn F chantier, especially in lumbering contexts, the possibility remains that a similar word, derived from Irish Gaelic sean tig hut, may have been introduced by Irish immigrants into Upper Canada, where the term seems first to have enjoyed currency; it may well be, therefore, that two different words of similar form contributed to the generalization of this term and its derivatives in Canada during the nineteenth century. Cp. note at shebang.
1b n. Hist. a specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers. [See picture.]
See also: camboose (def. 3) camp (def. 1c) log shanty (def. 2) lumber shanty (def. 1)
1c n. Hist. a boarding-house or bunkhouse erected at a work camp for the accommodation of miners, loggers, etc.
See also: sleeping camp
2a n. Hist. a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.
See also: camboose camp (def. 2) chantier (def. 2) logging (def. 2) logging camp lumber shanty (def. 2)
2b n. Hist. See quote.
2c n. Hist. the gang of loggers who work together and live in the same dwelling.
2d n. Hist. go to shanty, enter the bush in winter to work as a logger in the shanties (def. 2a).
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 2a)
2e n. Hist. put in shanty, establish a logging camp.
3a n. Hist. a crude one-room dwelling of logs patterned after the shanty (def. la) and much used by the pioneers, usually to serve as a temporary dwelling until a more substantial house could be built.
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1a)
3b n. a rude dwelling, especially one of wood, usually in a rundown condition.
