An informal unlicensed bar and hotel, especially one on a goldfield.
she kept a grog shanty on a diggings camp
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- Having thrown up the odd grog shanty and a couple of planks across the muddy streets, Marvellous Melbourne was officially incorporated as a Town.
- I find her in a grog shanty and have to drag her out.
- The single dusty street was crowded with horsemen and bullock teams even though the inns and grog shanties were crowded.
- We buried him next day on the little sandhill at the back of the grog shanty.
- You came into town and the first grog shanty you hit, you drank all the money away in a week or two.
- We must pull up at the grog shanty and take a drink.
- Grog shanties, dancing and gambling saloons sprang up like mushrooms and throve on the hard-won earnings of the diggers.
- A drover with piles of money arrived at a grog shanty.
- The 'lower classes' tended to frequent grog shanties notorious for filth and crime.
- He devoted most of his time to overseeing the operations of his taverns and grog shanties.