shanty-keeper

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

keeper of a sly-grog shop.

1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for Mail,' p. 45:

«Mrs. Smith was a shanty-keeper's wife.»

1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 72:

«The shanty-keeper saw the entering strangers.»

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