shanty in English

noun
1
a small, crudely built shack.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
synonyms:shackhut(log) cabinlean-toshedhovel

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1. Synonyms for Bustee include slum, ghetto, hovel, favela, Cabbagetown, jhuggi, purlieu, rookery, shanty and shanty town

2. I want to quit this shanty.

3. Up in the shanty towns subversion ruled.

4. His childhood was spent in a shanty.

5. The shanty tottered in the strong wind and fell.

6. 3 synonyms for Chanty: chantey, sea chantey, shanty

7. There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.

8. The category includes ballad, carcl, sea shanty and lullaby.

9. 3 synonyms for Chantey: chanty, sea Chantey, shanty

10. They lived in a shanty after the earthquake. Sentencedict.com

11. 8 There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.

12. She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty.

13. Bidonville definition: a shanty town Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

14. Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.

15. Bidonville (redirected from Bidonvilles) Related to Bidonvilles: Shanty town

16. In the shanty towns there are very poor living standards.

17. The soldier rigged up a shanty for a night's rest.

18. Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods.

19. A man in his shanty, a cockerel on his crowing post.

20. He purchased an old shanty from a railroad worker, and tore it down.

21. All the cottages had cutesy names like "Sea Shanty" painted above their doors.

22. The first shanty appeared on the ice on January and others soon followed.

23. The Anchormen, the South West's best and only sea shanty singing group

24. I've heard that there is a bully staying at a shanty by the woods.

25. Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns.

26. So return with us to that steamy, sweaty shanty in Old Boston Town.

27. 17 So return with us to that steamy, sweaty shanty in Old Boston Town.

28. Synonyms for Bothy include hut, cabin, shed, shelter, cottage, house, shack, shanty, hovel and whare

29. They work in the central and usually wealthy areas; people in the shanty towns do without.

30. All five of the American dictionaries have entries for “Chantey,” with standard variant spellings given as “chanty,” “shanty,” and “shantey.” All five British dictionaries list “shanty” as the only standard spelling, though one includes “Chantey” as an “archaic North American” usage.

31. And then they match her mortgage to what she paid in rent for her little shanty.

32. From the lumber from the shanty and the lumber from the woods, he constructed his own cabin.

33. The people make their way to Trnopolje, a refugee shanty-town near the railway and a lake.

34. 1 Pop music can be heard 10 miles away blasting out from the huge tented shanty-town.

35. For the dealers, selling drugs is one way to ensure that they don't end up in a shanty town.

36. But she will look very vulnerable —like a shanty in a vineyard or a watchman’s booth in a cucumber field.

37. In Lusaka, small-scale enterprise takes place mainly in the shanty towns three or four miles from the city centre.

38. Find top songs and albums by Cotters Bequest including Baker's Flat (1855 Irish Shanty Towns), The Burra (1861 The Welsh Smelters) and more.

39. For decades, these gatherings would draw in the neighborhood of 70 participants each month to enjoy a good shanty (also spelled “Chanty” or, as …

40. Here, the singer recounts his misadventures with various women. Cheerly Man is actually an American shanty, one of the most popular of the 19th century

41. In the Stonehenge, each two standing stone pillars are connected by a laying one, something like a shanty, and even a revolution from natural cave.

42. Sailors heading down the Mississippi River picked up the song and made it a capstan shanty that they sang while hauling in the anchor.

43. Boist: A rude hut, such as those erected along the line of a railway for the temporary use of laborers: called in the United States a shanty.

44. chanty - a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors Chantey, sea Chantey, shanty work song - a usually rhythmical song to accompany repetitious work Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

45. Lyrics to the sea shanty Ben Backstay, as performed by Jerry Bryant and Starboard Mess from the album Roast Beef of Old England.Edit: To all the folks who sa

46. A sea shanty, chantey, or Chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels.The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire.However, in recent, popular usage, the scope of its definition is sometimes expanded to admit a wider range of repertoire and characteristics

47. The blast took place in the city 's Lunga Lunga industrial area , and police and troops cordoned off the area as firefighters battled fierce flames in the surrounding shanty town .

48. ‘We took a little boat out and I demonstrated my inability to row for more than ten minutes as we passed the small shanty (or ‘Bustee’) communities which line the waterways of …

49. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Birds Cockerel cock‧e‧rel / ˈkɒk ə rəl $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] HBB a young male chicken Examples from the Corpus Cockerel • A man in his shanty, a Cockerel on his crowing post

50. Shanty, also spelled Chantey, or Chanty (from French chanter, “to sing”), English-language sailors’ work song dating from the days of sailing ships, when manipulating heavy sails, by means of ropes, from positions on the deck constituted a large part of a sailor’s work