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Meanings of chanty in English
Usage of chanty in English
1
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:
6
A famous capstan chanty is well known on land, whence, indeed, it originally came:
7
Sharkey could hear the hoarse voices of his rovers singing their chanty over the water.
8
Suddenly he began to croon a long-forgotten sailor's chanty.
9
A good pumping-out chanty after a storm is
10
Here is a heaving chanty, or slow pull:
11
The gutter steams with the emptyings of chanty-pots.
12
Yet the unchanging repetition makes the work easier, as a sailor's chanty helps at the topsail halliards.
13
We hove up anchor to a jolly chanty, and sailed out of Yokohama harbour for San Francisco.
14
On Xmas night it was kept up till 1 A.M., and no work is done without a chanty.
15
From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque.
16
Indeed, his "chanty began at home;" and it was so fond of its residence, that it stopped there.
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Frequent collocations
Chanty through the time