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n. (plural of chanty English)
Usage examples of "chanties".
Behind him in the stern seat, singing fragments of his native chanties, Defago steered the craft of birchbark like a thing of life, answering cheerfully all his companion's questions.
He handed his tobacco pouch to the guide and then filled his own pipe, while the Canadian, nothing loth, sent his light voice across the lake in one of those plaintive, almost melancholy chanties with which lumbermen and trappers lessen the burden of their labour.
Security guys, that spends half his shift down at the Life and then goes up and down the streetlet all night playing with his service baton and singing sea chanties off-key, that's just impressively qualified to Come In to AA with them.
Retsler usually liked the black and white skull-and-crossbones hanging over the door, the uneven wooden floor, the skulls lining the fireplace mantel, the sound of sea chanties sung with unusual heartiness through the stereo speakers.
He was brought in by Soltan Gris to start the phony World United Chanties Mercy and Benevolent Hospital in Afyon.
A couple of sea chanties, then a ballad, and more and more, and either every one was perfectly fitted to the timing set by the ship’s motion, or else Blood Wave herself now danced to the minstrel’s beat.