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chanty
[ shan-tee, chan- ]
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From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque.
Whistling cheerily, a rollicking chanty of the sea to which his feet kept time, he walked briskly along.
But the selectman hummed an old sea chanty while he hunted for a blank, and smiled as he penned the document.
I find a great difference between the old-fashioned chanty man and the modern seaman who never sings at his work.
All the crew were aboard and a knot of swaying bodies turned the windlass to the rhythm of a muttered chanty.
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