DCHP-2

log shanty DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1

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

  See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1a)  

  • 1848  We retraced our steps back to the log shanty where we had stopped.
  • 1952  The original log shanties were probably much of the same type, so also were the squared-log houses which followed them.

• 2

  specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers.

  See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1b and picture)  

  • 1957  In most camps before the First World War they slept and ate under one roof, in log shanties forty or fifty feet square.