chantey

Definitions

Examples

• The black chantey-man answered and joined Jones, and the mate mustered representatives of four continents as he drawled, “Valdez!”

• Voices rippled from chantey to roundelay and back to chantey again.

• The old mans chantey—it now had to do with one Old Stormy, alleged to be dead and gone—promptly ceased.

• So intent had he been that he had quite failed to notice the cessation of the old cooks chantey.

• Now, I say that Czerny's men were firing rifle-shots at the anchored schooner, and that sound was a true chantey for our ears.