chanty
Americannoun
plural
chantiesnoun
Example Sentences
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Sing a song of sixpence—a chanty of three $100 prizes awarded for those three groups of players deemed best by the gaffers sitting in judgment!
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago Dalmia confessed that he had made a big contribution to a government chanty, expecting that he would not therefore "be dragged into the sphere of action of the Income Tax Investigation Commission."
From Time Magazine Archive
Already up to her earrings in Manhattan's endlessly proliferating chanty balls, New York Herald Tribune Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard made a tongue-in-cheek plea for yet another.
From Time Magazine Archive
The purpose of this dastardly chanty was, of course, to counteract Henry John Heinz's moral influence in Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sails were loosened, a chanty man was selected from among the southern-going seamen, and amid a chorus of sweet song the yards were leisurely mast-headed.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter
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