How to use chanty in a sentence
From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque.
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey | A. Conan DoyleWhistling cheerily, a rollicking chanty of the sea to which his feet kept time, he walked briskly along.
The Argus Pheasant | John Charles BeechamBut the selectman hummed an old sea chanty while he hunted for a blank, and smiled as he penned the document.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayI find a great difference between the old-fashioned chanty man and the modern seaman who never sings at his work.
Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston HopkinsAll the crew were aboard and a knot of swaying bodies turned the windlass to the rhythm of a muttered chanty.
The Black Buccaneer | Stephen W. Meader
British Dictionary definitions for chanty
/ (ˈʃæntɪ, ˈtʃæn-) /
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