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"ref": "2013, Richard James Bentley, Greenbeard",
"text": "If yez is smart yer will take out enough for a shant and some fun, enough to buy yer missus or yer tart a new dress, enough to put shoes on yer sister's weans, even, but leave the rest under yer feet for the next day, an' the day arter that.",
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"ref": "2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm",
"text": "Welcoming Captain St Claire, Prince Rupert ordered him a shant of dark porter and called upon him to speak of his travels.",
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"ref": "2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants",
"text": "Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya",
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"ref": "1889, David Hill, Out of His Sphere: A Drama in Three Acts, page 33",
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"ref": "2009, Alan Burt Akers, The Havilfar Cycle II, page 148",
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"ref": "2014, Alexander Cordell, Tunnel Tigers",
"text": "I'd rather deliver in the Glossop Grubber than that apology for a shant.",
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"(UK) A shack or shanty."
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