timber shanty

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

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

Quotations

1885

The "prog" [supplies] he spoke of was then cached, or stored, in an abandoned timber shanty about fifteen miles from our tent. . . .

1945

The accounts are . . . for . . . all the usual costs of a timber shanty.