shanty

1
A roughly-built hut or cabin.
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.
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shack hovel
2
A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
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.
3
A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
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.
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sea shanty

1
Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.
2
Jaunty; showy.

1
To inhabit a shanty.
we came down the Alleghany in two canoes , and shantied on the Ohio

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