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shantyman's smallpox
noun
marks from hard physical fighting CANADA- Feet rather than fists were the principal weapons and many a riverman, beaten down in the onset, carried on his face and chest for the rest of his life the scars of “shantyman’s smallpox” - the pits and punctures of caulks and cleats. — G.R. Stevens, The Incompleat Canadian, p. 38, 1965
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