chantie

[< Cdn F]

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

See: logging(def. 2),shanty ((n.))(def. 2a),chantie-man(def. 2)

Quotations

1824

the oxen and horses . . . are either driven up through the woods to the Chanties in the fall of the year, or after the ice takes. . . .

2n.

a crude hut used as a dwelling by lumbermen in the bush.

See: shanty ((n.))(def. 1a),chantie-man(def. 1)

1871

We . . . dined at Mr. Murray's the owner of the only chantie between Macaulayville and that point.