chanty
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The term was used quite commonly among seafaring men in the 17th century, and referred to an ancient sea chanty with numerous verses and the repeating chorus: One more day, me buckoos!
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
British chanty leaders continued their efforts to curry favor with Mrs. Simpson.
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
Allison’s chanty is one of the best, if not the very best, in its class, and The Scoop is glad to have been given a chance to so accredit it.
From The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison by Hitchcock, Champion Ingraham
It takes just a few props and a lot of gusto to depict the launching of the good 18th-century ship Hispaniola, along with some hearty sea chanties.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
She slips a CD of sea chanties into a player as she prepares a dinner of meatballs in the small galley below decks in the heart of Lady Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
They grow fast, much faster than chanterelles, and it’s likely they hadn’t even broken through the duff when the competition cleaned out the chanties a couple of days earlier.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2013
Mr. Waterson, a bass, possessed a robust, unaffected, pleasantly sandpapery voice that seemed made for sea chanties, which the group also sang.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2011
With her counterpart on the starboard watch, Theo, she led chanties while the crew raised the sails, while they sweated and heaved at the capstans.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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