Work song sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels.
Sinônimos
Examples for "shanty"
Examples for "shanty"
1The shanty rocked in the wind like the cradle of a child.
2From the interior of the shanty behind there came a similar chorus.
3The answering voice was the voice of the man of the shanty.
4The Siner home was a three-room shanty about midway in the semicircle.
5The gnawing still went on behind the old shanty by the river.
1The chanty-man was a distinguished person whom it was impolitic to ignore.
2Strike up any sort of sailor's chanty when we're in the restaurant.
3After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a chanty.
4A Japanese tune rises like a sailors' chanty from the band.
5For a quick pulling chanty we often use this one:
1Why don't you sing a chantey over me, I want to know?
2Gallowglass was crooning a sea chantey in the château's great hall.
3Jessie could hear the gay lilt of the chantey that heralded their coming:
4Young Jerry only was to be seen, sitting on the cabin step and singing the ancient chantey.
5I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty:
1He clatters away with the pan, humming an old sea shanty.
2Michael is singing in the shower; a sea shanty of some sort, I believe.
3Perhaps somebody would even write a sea shanty about the mystery of the sepulchral travellers.
4Lyrics from a sea shanty about piratical physiognomy?
5Lao Tzu hums a sea shanty.
6This was an old sea shanty song, but just quite didn't lift to the heights that other team theme songs have.
7Kelos stared into the depths of his ale, behind him two sailors were beating a sea shanty into a broken piano.
8By the middle of the song, the room was ringing, with men and women taking equal pleasure in the sea shanty's bawdier lyrics.
9Listen to a session with the Wellington Sea Shanty Society here.
10It's not often you'll find sea shanties and Gospel on the same programme.
11Nick Bollinger sets sail on the latest offering from the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.
12Photo: Supplied Lake South has also performed with Urban Tramper and the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.
13Now I think my spine is about to concertina so violently it'll start playing jaunty sea shanties.
14He's humming one of his sea shanties.
15Despite being self-confessed landlubbers, The Wellington Sea Shanty Society have been delving into New Zealand's maritime music history.
16The vocal colour in Leon Bailey's A Shanty Sequence (free arrangements of sea shanties) was impressive.
Translations for sea shanty