shan‧ty /ˈʃænti/
noun (
plural shanties)
[countable][
Sense 1: Date: 1800-1900;
Language: Canadian French;
Origin: chantier, from French, 'wooden support', from Latin cantherius 'trellis']
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Sense 2: Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: chantey]
1. a small, roughly built hut made from thin sheets of wood,
tin, plastic etc that very poor people live in:
Workers were living in tents and shanties.2. (
also sea shanty) a song sung by sailors in the past, as they did their work
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