log shanty

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

See: shanty ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1848

We retraced our steps back to the log shanty where we had stopped.

1952

The original log shanties were probably much of the same type, so also were the squared-log houses which followed them.

specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers.

See: shanty ((n.))(def. 1b and picture)

1957

In most camps before the First World War they slept and ate under one roof, in log shanties forty or fifty feet square.