Synonyms:
hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty
Meaning: small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Usage examples
I recall your shanty at the back and many merry nights there.
He said that he would tie him to a tree that stood against the shanty close to the door.
He had started on foot from Big Shanty in complete ignorance of what was happening to his stolen train.
"We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet."
A short time ago we received twenty thousand dollars from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to be used for the purpose of erecting a new library building. Our first library and reading-room were in a corner of a shanty, and the whole thing occupied a space about five by twelve feet.