Shanty
['ʃæntɪ] or ['ʃænti]
Definition
(a.) Jaunty; showy.
(n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
(v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.
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Definition
n. a mean dwelling or hut a temporary house: a grog-shop.
n. a song with boisterous drawling chorus sung by sailors while heaving at the capstan or the like—also Chant′y Chant′ie.—n. Shant′yman the leader of such a chorus.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a shanty, denotes that you will leave home in the quest of health. This also warns you of decreasing prosperity.
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Examples
- Moving far to Sherman's right, he succeeded in reaching the railroad about Big Shanty, and moved north on it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Let's give 'em a shanty. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The quarters was a little sort of street of rude shanties, in a row, in a part of the plantation, far off from the house. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was not his fault if at first some extremely unsound and impermanent shanties were run up on the vacant site. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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