shanty

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A mean cabin or shed.--Worcester.


The best residences in the slave States are made disagreeable by the proximity of huts and shanties for negroes, which, in Charleston, offend the eye everywhere except in the streets devoted to trade.--Letter from Charleston, N. Y. Tribune, April, 1848.

A hut, or mean dwelling.

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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