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shanty fire Hist. 
an open fireplace in the living quarters of a lumber camp.
See also: camboose (def. 2) camboose fire
- 1852 (1881) At night, when the canoes had all retired to the camp on the north shore, and all fear of detection had ceased for the time, they lighted up their shanty fire, and cooked a good supper, and also prepared sufficiency of food for the following day.
- 1947 Visitors who bask in the warmth of the famous central fireplace at the Seigneury Club in the Province of Quebec, likely do not know that French-Canadian lumbermen long enjoyed the same kind of comfort from the old shanty fires.
- 1852 (1881) At night, when the canoes had all retired to the camp on the north shore, and all fear of detection had ceased for the time, they lighted up their shanty fire, and cooked a good supper, and also prepared sufficiency of food for the following day.