A rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors.
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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