0 a small house, usually made from pieces of wood, metal, or cardboard, in which poor people live, especially on the edge of a city --
1 a song that sailors sang in the past while they were working on a ship --
2 a small, badly built house, usually made from pieces of wood, metal, or cardboard, in which poor people live: --
Hotels in these times usually began as shanties, selling coffee to passing coaches, before gaining their liquor licences.
He recorded a number of sea shanties and folk songs.
The move was intended to improve traffic flow on the road, and discourage shanties from coming up due to the smaller footpath.
The removal of the shanties paved the way for improved safer school environment.
The remaining lived along the side of the river in shanties.
He remained in the lumber and steamboat businesses, and also traded in groceries, in large part to supply his own boats, shanties and so forth.
Much of the region's music focuses on the strong seafaring tradition in the area, and includes sea shanties and other sailing songs.
To do this, the corporation will have to buy some 80 miles of unmade-up roads along which are thousands of small bungalows that the planners describe as shacks or shanties.
