What is "chantey"

Usage examples of "chantey".

Paragon's deep voice vibrated the deck with a chantey, marking time for the crew as they hoisted canvas.

Paragon turned his head, mouth wide as he held the final note of the chantey, then cut it off abruptly.

A music box was jangling and somebody in a corner was singing an old sea chantey in a loud, off-key voice.

Gant struck up a chantey and slowly and steadily they plodded around the capstan, and inch by slow inch the schooner began to move once more.

The Tlingits, filled with their age-old hatred of Russians, fell to with a will and to the tune of chanteys they shoved and pushed on the capstan bars.

Lavender himself had now broken into a strange and lamentable chantey, which, in combination with the creeping flutter of the flames in the weekly journals encircling the base of the funeral pyre, well-nigh made her blood curdle.

Sharina could hear the crew calling a chantey as they walked the capstan, raising the yard and sail which had rested on deck while the ship was in harbor.

Several of them began to sing chanteys, but they weren't the same chantey.

Soon a lesser moonAglaiarose to join Durga in the sky, and someone started humming a sailor's chantey in greeting.

Laughter overcame her, erasing her previous embarrassment at thoughts that could have held their own with those lewd sea chanteys he'd mentioned.

He learned the short and long haul chanteys, the one quick and nervous and the other a slow, swinging rhythm.

The English shouted tuneless chanteys, swaying their bodies to preserve the rhythm.

They rendered roistering chanteys of the sea, and there was much more volume than music.

The work chanteys that Gralior's men had sung as they hauled up sail or worked the capstan bar were coarse and repetitive, not truly music to my ear.

And that sea chantey on the backbar is right on target, with fifteen guests poisoned and one guest dead.