shanty

n.

1) a hastily erected wooden house;

2) a public-house, especially unlicensed: a sly-grog shop.The word is by origin Keltic (Irish). In the first sense, itsuse is Canadian or American; in the last, Australian. InBarrere and Leland it is said that circus and showmen alwayscall a public-house a shanty.

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), June 26, p. 91, col. 1:

«These buildings, little better than shanties, are found in. . . numbers.»

1880. Garnet Walch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. 9:

«We read of the veriest shanties letting for L2 per week.»

1880. W. Senior, `Travel and Trout,' p. 15:

«He becomes a land-owner, and puts up a slab-shanty.»

1880. G. n. Oakley, in `Victoria in 1880,' p. 114:

«The left-hand track, past shanties soaked in grog,

Leads to the gaol.»

1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 103:

«The faint glimmering light which indicates the proximityof the grog shanty is hailed with delight.»

1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 221:

«I have seen a sober man driven perfectly mad for the timebeing, by two glasses of so-called rum, supplied to him at oneof these shanties.»

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. vi. p. 64:

«Any attempt to limit the licensing produced . . . a crop ofshanties, or sly-grog shops.»

1890. `The Argus,' Aug. 9, p. 4, col. 2:

«The old woman thought that we were on gold, and would lambdown at the finish in her shanty.»