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shanty loaf 
a kind of unleavened bread made of coarse flour and resembling hardtack, used in earlier days in the bush cabins and camps.
See also: shanty cake
- 1845 The sugar-maker's bark-covered hut contains his bedding and provisions, consisting of little save the huge round loaf of bread, known as the "shanty loaf"--his beverage or substitute for tea is made of the leaves of wintergreen, or the hemlock boughs which grow beside him, and his sweetening being handy bye, he wants nothing more.
- 1845 The sugar-maker's bark-covered hut contains his bedding and provisions, consisting of little save the huge round loaf of bread, known as the "shanty loaf"--his beverage or substitute for tea is made of the leaves of wintergreen, or the hemlock boughs which grow beside him, and his sweetening being handy bye, he wants nothing more.