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Meanings of sea shanty in anglès
Work song sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels.
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Examples for "shanty"
Examples for "shanty"
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The shanty rocked in the wind like the cradle of a child.
2
From the interior of the shanty behind there came a similar chorus.
3
The answering voice was the voice of the man of the shanty.
4
The Siner home was a three-room shanty about midway in the semicircle.
5
The gnawing still went on behind the old shanty by the river.
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The chanty-man was a distinguished person whom it was impolitic to ignore.
2
Strike up any sort of sailor's chanty when we're in the restaurant.
3
After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a chanty.
4
A Japanese tune rises like a sailors' chanty from the band.
5
For a quick pulling chanty we often use this one:
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Why don't you sing a chantey over me, I want to know?
2
Gallowglass was crooning a sea chantey in the château's great hall.
3
Jessie could hear the gay lilt of the chantey that heralded their coming:
4
Young Jerry only was to be seen, sitting on the cabin step and singing the ancient chantey.
5
I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty:
Usage of sea shanty in anglès
1
He clatters away with the pan, humming an old sea shanty.
2
Michael is singing in the shower; a sea shanty of some sort, I believe.
3
Perhaps somebody would even write a sea shanty about the mystery of the sepulchral travellers.
4
Lyrics from a sea shanty about piratical physiognomy?
5
Lao Tzu hums a sea shanty.
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This was an old sea shanty song, but just quite didn't lift to the heights that other team theme songs have.
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Kelos stared into the depths of his ale, behind him two sailors were beating a sea shanty into a broken piano.
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By the middle of the song, the room was ringing, with men and women taking equal pleasure in the sea shanty's bawdier lyrics.
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Listen to a session with the Wellington Sea Shanty Society here.
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It's not often you'll find sea shanties and Gospel on the same programme.
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Nick Bollinger sets sail on the latest offering from the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.
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Photo: Supplied Lake South has also performed with Urban Tramper and the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.
13
Now I think my spine is about to concertina so violently it'll start playing jaunty sea shanties.
14
He's humming one of his sea shanties.
15
Despite being self-confessed landlubbers, The Wellington Sea Shanty Society have been delving into New Zealand's maritime music history.
16
The vocal colour in Leon Bailey's A Shanty Sequence (free arrangements of sea shanties) was impressive.
Translations for sea shanty
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