1901. D. Telegraph, 28 Oct., 10, 5. He was much more interested in two old-fashioned animals, the horse and another strange animal enjoying the name—the origin of which he had never yet been able to discover—of shanks's pony.
2. (colloquial).—The fag end.
1880. Harris, Uncle Remus, xv. Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin'.
1888. Paton, Down the Islands. The old Kentuckian who in the shanks of the evening was wont to maintain there was no such thing as bad Kentucky whiskey.
Shanker, subs. (venery).—'A
little Scab or Pox on the Nut
or Glans of the Yard.' (B. E.).
1660. Old Ballad, 'An Hist. Ballad' [Ane Pleasant Garden (c. 1800)]. A shanker's a damn'd loveing thing where it seizes.
1731. Swift, Young Nymph Going to Bed. With gentlest touch she next explores Her shankers, issues, running sores.
1772. Bridges, Homer Burlesque, 491. But Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers.
Shannon. 'It is said, persons
dipped in that river are perfectly
and for ever cured of bashfulness'
(Grose).
Shant, subs. (tramps').—A quart;
a pot: e.g., shant of gatter
= a pot of beer. Also shanty.
1851-61. Mayhew, London Lab. i. 232. They have a shant of gatter at the nearest boozing ken.
1893. Emerson, Lippo. v. I should jusf think you would beg my pardon, and to show you mean it stand a couple of shants of bevarly to square the boys.
Sha'n't, verb. (colloquial).—Shall
not. Now we shan't be long
= It's all right: a general note
of satisfaction or agreement: a
street catch of the late nineties.
1897. Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, v. Now we shan't be long! she remarked.
Shanty, subs. (common).—1. A
rough and tumble hut; 2. (Australian
and showmen's) a public-house;
(3) a brothel (sailors');
and (4) a quart; whence (5) beer
money. Also as verb. = (1) to
dwell in a hut, and (2) to take
shelter.
1848. Cooper, Oak Openings, 26. This was the second season that le Bourdon had occupied 'Castle Meal,' as he himself called the shanty.
1857. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes, 197. Mark Shuff and a friend . . . shantied on the outlet, just at the foot of Tupper's Lake. Ibid. 212. We shantied on the Ohio.
b. 1859. New York Courier [Bartlett]. The sportsmen . . . brace themselves to meet the rude exigencies of a tramp and shanteeing out for a few days.
1861. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, liv. There was weeping in the reed-thatched hovels of the Don, and in the mud-built shanties of the Dnieper.
1878. Century Mag., Dec., 510. These droll and dirty congeries of shanties and shacks.
1886-96. Marshall, 'He Slumbered' ['Pomes,' 118]. She scooted from the shanty.
1887. All Year Round, 30 July, 67. Inns do not exist in Australia, every house of refreshment is a 'hotel.' It may be only a wooden shanty up-country.
1889. Haddon Chambers, In Australian Wilds, 53. I knew that there was no public house or shanty within twelve miles.
1890. Dilke, Prob. Greater Britain, iii. 1. Kimberley is still a huge aggregation of shanties, traversed by tramways, and lit by electric light.
1892. Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweet heart, 34. "Yes; and did you run that shanty long, Stringy?" For three months and more, and did a roaring trade besides.
1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 3. A sand-parlour'd shanty.
1893. Emerson, Lippo, v. Any shanty in your sky-rocket? Ibid., xiv. Then we went out for a shanty, and when we came back Blower and Bottlenose were clearing up.
