Definition of "shant"

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.

2013, Richard James Bentley, Greenbeard

Welcoming Captain St Claire, Prince Rupert ordered him a shant of dark porter and called upon him to speak of his travels.

2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm

Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya

2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants

Why, I wouldn't swap this old wrack of a shant , ez I've called it, with the treasures it contains to-day, for al the bloomin'est bloomed mansions that ever stood on the face of the earth.

1889, David Hill, Out of His Sphere: A Drama in Three Acts, page 33

I clapped Ehren on the shoulder and went away to stare broodingly upon that cramph of a shant.

2009, Alan Burt Akers, The Havilfar Cycle II, page 148

I'd rather deliver in the Glossop Grubber than that apology for a shant.

2014, Alexander Cordell, Tunnel Tigers