DCHP-2
sleeping camp DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a boarding-house or bunkhouse erected at a work camp for the accommodation of miners, loggers, etc.
See also: shanty ((n.)) (def. 1c)
- 1898 The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping-camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away . . . stood the stables, and near them the smiddy.
- 1935 The sleeping camps were marquees with hewn log floors and four-foot log walls, a box stove in the centre. . . .
- 1898 The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping-camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away . . . stood the stables, and near them the smiddy.