subs. (tramps’).—A quart; a pot: e.g., SHANT OF GATTER = a pot of beer. Also SHANTY.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 232. They have a SHANT of gatter at the nearest boozing ken.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor 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.
