DCHP-2

chantie [< Cdn F] Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

  See also: logging (def. 2)  shanty ((n.)) (def. 2a)  chantie-man (def. 2)  

  • 1824  the oxen and horses . . . are either driven up through the woods to the Chanties in the fall of the year, or after the ice takes. . . .

• 2 n.

  a crude hut used as a dwelling by lumbermen in the bush.

  See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1a)  chantie-man (def. 1)  

  • 1871  We . . . dined at Mr. Murray's the owner of the only chantie between Macaulayville and that point.