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Shanty is a related term of lodge.


As nouns the difference between shanty and lodge

is that shanty is a roughly-built hut or cabin or shanty can be a sailor′s work song while lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

As verbs the difference between shanty and lodge

is that shanty is to inhabit a shanty while lodge is to be firmly fixed in a specified position.

As an adjective shanty

is (us|pejorative) living in shanties ; poor, ill-mannered and violent or shanty can be jaunty; showy.

shanty

English

Etymology 1

From . * (unlicenced pub) New Zealand from 1848.

Noun

(shanties)
  • A roughly-built hut or cabin.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • * 1965 January, Stuart James, Angling?s New Gadgets'', ''(Popular Mechanics) , page 224,
    • The ice fishing shanty' is not a necessity, but it does add to the comfort. A ' shanty can be any size or shape, four pieces of plywood banged together with a plywood roof, or as elaborate as one I was told about by a Minneapolis fisherman that has four rooms with gas heat and wall-to-wall carpeting.
  • * 1999' January, Lawrence Pyne, ''In Vermont: Rental '''Shanties Give Hassle-Free Ice-Fishing'', '' , page 78,
    • The solution is to use ice-fishing shacks, called shanties' on Champlain. Every winter, veritable ' shanty towns spring up as safe ice develops, and their snug occupants harvest fresh meals of perch, pike, walleye, salmon, trout, and smelt without first being flash-frozen themselves.
  • * 2000 , Craig A. Gilborn, Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 , page 51,
    • Shanties' are the most interesting and original of early housing in the Adirondacks.Bark for roofs and even walls on occasion seems to be an attribute of the '''shanty'''. Large '''shanties''' at staging grounds in the woods included bunkhouses holding one to three dozen men, so not all ' shanties were small.
  • A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
  • * 2003 , (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 , page 208,
    • Shanties along canal banks and road reserves have emerged since independence in 1948 onwards, and consist of unauthorized and improvised shelter without legal rights of occupancy of the land and structures.
  • * 2005 , Stephen Codrington, Planet Geography , page 481,
    • A few governments recognise the shanties' as a form of self-help housing that places very little burden upon government funds. Such governments sometimes encourage ' shanty development by providing water, electricity and garbage collection services.
  • * 2009 , James E. Casto, The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 , page 83,
    • In the hard times of the 1930s, shanty boats along the Ohio River?s banks were home to many families, who felt fortunate to have a roof over their heads even if it was not on dry land.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicenced pub.
  • * 1881 , Henry W. Nesfield, A Chequered Career; Or, Fifteen years in Australia and New Zealand , page 351,
    • The shanty -keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
    Synonyms
    * (roughly built hut or cabin) shack * (rudimentary dwelling) * (unlicenced pub) speakeasy
    Derived terms
    * grog shanty * shanty back * shanty-keeper * shanty town

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US, pejorative) Living in shanties ; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
    • That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.
  • * 1963 , William V. Shannon,
    • The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty' Irish” of an earlier generation. The '''shanty''' Irish might in some instances have been the individual?s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, foty years later, became Central Park. Or ' shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious.
    Usage notes
    Applied to poor Irish immigrants, from the mid-1800s.

    Verb

  • To inhabit a shanty.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) chantez, imperative of .

    Noun

    (shanties)
  • A sailor?s work song.
  • * 1979', Stan Hugill, '''''Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-songs and Songs Used as Work-songs from the Great Days of Sail , page 192,
    • A Scot called Macmillan, a man holding a master's square-rig ticket, gave me a portion of a shanty related in tune to the foregoing, and also to the British Rolling Home .
  • * 1997 , Jan Ling, A History of European Folk Music , page 41,
    • Today, shanties' are a special feature of the folk music movement. The first International '''Shanty''' Festival, '''Shanty''' ?87, was held in 1987 in Krakow, Poland, with Stan Hugill, the “godfather of the '''shanty''',” in attendance (see ''Folk Roots'', September 1987, No. 51, “Hugill-Mania! Stan Hugill Godfather of the ' Shanty Mafia, Goes to Poland,” p.33ff.).
    See also
    (wikipedia shanty) * chantey

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • jaunty; showy
    • (Webster 1913)

    lodge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
  • (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
    • (Raymond)
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • * De Foe
    • the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
    • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.

    Verb

    (lodg)
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
    • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
    The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
    • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
  • To stay in any place or shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Stay and lodge by me this night.
  • * Milton
    • Something holy lodges in that breast.
  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
    • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .

    Derived terms

    * lodger * lodging * lodgement

    Anagrams

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