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shantyman
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Hist.
a man who lived and worked in a shanty (def. 2a).
Quotations
1824
You make a great fuss about the high price of labour, but you don't consider the high price the shanty men pay you for what you raise off your farms.
1896
Joe Veleau kept a hotel in the woods . . . patronized by shantymen.
1964
Equally significant . . . is the story of early roads by which shantymen reached their camboose camps.
2n.
a lay missionary belonging to the Shantymen's Christian Association, which carries out evangelical work among loggers and miners in bush camps across Canada.
See: Shantyman missionary
Quotations
1962
The firefighters' chief at Ignace [Ont.] did not need to think twice. "If they're shantymen, they can take care of themselves," he said.