chanty
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈʃænti/
- Archaic
:
canción de marineros
- Deep in the ship, on the bleak and damp orlop deck, Artus could hear the chanty belted out by the sailors.
- a sea chanty
- singing a chanty
Examples
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"Chanty, have you heard the latest one that's going the rounds in Nairobi?
Fiction book (1994) -
Aye, and then this chanty wrassler whips in and steals it fae underneath wir nose?
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The chanty was an old one and had a hundred variations all along the Sword Coast.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mike began singing a sea chanty, and the polesmen picked up the melody.
Fiction book (1994) -
The boatswain started another chorus of the chanty, and the dark thoughts troubling him flew away with the notes of the bright old sea song.
Fiction book (1992) -
Annoyingly, this is just as likely if prophecy is an actual thing in your verse as it is if it's some old piece of doggerel that's done time as a children's rhyme, a sea chanty, and a political slogan, along with having been exposed to generation upon generation of cultural telephone.
Blog text (14) -
In a process familiar to ethnomusicologists, these foreign elements were assimilated and adapted to their new environment, just as traditional English ballads, chanties, and other folk idioms traveled and put down new roots in locales far distant from their places of origin.
Academic text (2005) -
As the crew hoisted the sails, they sang a lively chanty to keep their spirits high.
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The sailors joined together to sing a traditional chanty, coordinating their efforts as they worked.
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During the long voyage, they often entertained themselves by singing a rhythmic chanty while hauling in the nets.
Synonyms
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8.8
A rhythmic song sailors sing while working on a ship
1
9.9
A rhythmic work song sailors sing to help them work together
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8.3
A song sailors sing to keep a steady beat while they work together
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3.7
A song with a steady beat people sing to make repeating work easier, for example in fields or on ships
A song sailors sing while working to keep everyone in time
How Coordinating
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Morphology
Etymology
Chanty comes from the French verb chanter 'to sing' and is like the English word chant. So a chanty is a rhythmic song sailors sang to keep time and work together.