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n. (alternative spelling of sea shanty English)
Usage examples of "sea chanty".
The most irritating part of it all was that as he pulled in the living rope, he piped forth a deep-sea chanty.
Amos took out a pipe and began filling it with tabac, humming a sea chanty.
He sang a lusty sea chanty, and she felt her cheeks flush red at the vivid image of the serving maid lifting her skirt for the amorous captain.
Over against one wall, a sailor in th'e worn jerkin of a top rigger was leading an old sea chanty to the accompaniment of a reed pipe, an out-of-tune lute, and two heavy trestle tables which had become the percussion section.
Listening to oars creak in rhythm to a sea chanty, we moved slowly through the blue-black waves.
The frosted doors to the inner sanctum had bronze fouled anchors mounted in place of handles, and I pushed through humming a sea chanty under my breath.
The Goddamn Parrot broke out in some kind of sea chanty about swords and silver and dead men while someone else gave me a quick, savage finger poke with a nail probably specially sharpened for the task.
Uhura tuned the guitar then treated them in succession to an east African lullaby, a Scottish air, a Welsh ballad and an Irish sea chanty.