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sophie_1003 | 18:58 Mon 07th Feb 2011 | Home & Garden
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What's the name given to a shelter with a roof supported by four posts with open sides; not gazebo, pergola or arbour. Someone mentioned it the other day with reference to a wooden one and I'd never hear the word before and now it's really bugging me that I can't remember what it was!
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Car port? No... well, maybe kiosk or alcove? Maybe rotunda or belvedere? Lattice?
19:08 Mon 07th Feb 2011
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Nope none of them Clanad, thanks anyway; think it began with 'sh' although can't be certain!
19:09 Mon 07th Feb 2011
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Shelter !
19:49 Mon 07th Feb 2011
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Haha! That would be the easy answer, thought it was shabeen or something like that but unless this person just made it up it wasn't that I don't think (doesn't come up with anything remotely shelter like for that on Google!)
19:55 Mon 07th Feb 2011
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Aha! Sukkah... from the ancient Hebrew Festival of Sukkot... I should have thought of that first...
23:23 Mon 07th Feb 2011
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Nope it's not that one either; good suggestion though Clanad! Seriously beginning to think this lady must have accidentally made it up!
16:25 Tue 08th Feb 2011
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Thanks all, the lady in question definitely calls it a shabeen; saw it written down today! This doesn't come up with much on Google so maybe she's made it up from something else!
22:44 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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A shebeen was an illicit bar, irish origin - does she keep the beer out there?!!
22:47 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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Was it misheard?


i.e. "where's ya been?" ... "in the garden, silly"

lol:-)
22:49 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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Yeah that's the only thing I could find that was anything like a shelter boxtops! It's in the outside area of a nursery so hope she doesn't keep beer in it!
Lol maybe naz!
22:51 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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Cool ... http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1999009
22:53 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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a barrack - used to be used by the Dutch for hay, four to five posts and a roof canopy that can be raised/lowered.........?
22:54 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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Nope; she definitely calls it a shabeen DT; I would just call it a wooden gazebo I think!
22:56 Wed 09th Feb 2011
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It sounds like what is nowadays officially allowed as a Smoking Hut, for the poor oppressed individuals who still like a cigarette!
02:31 Thu 10th Feb 2011
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The only thing I can think of which sounds similar to what you describe is a Lych Gate which is found at the entrance to a churchyard to protect the coffin while waiting for the minister?
12:51 Thu 10th Feb 2011
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Pole barn?
12:55 Thu 10th Feb 2011
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Could be canopy?
13:43 Tue 15th Feb 2011
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Could be canopy?
13:43 Tue 15th Feb 2011

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