sea shanty
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sea shanty — same as ↑shanty2 • • • Main Entry: ↑sea * * * ˈsea shanty [sea shanty sea shanties] noun (BrE … Useful english dictionary
Sea shanty — For the song Sea Shanty by Quasi, see Featuring Birds For the album Sea Shanties by English band High Tide, see High Tide (band). Sailors sang shanties while performing shipboard labor A shanty (also spelled chantey , chanty ) is a type of work… … Wikipedia
sea shanties — Sea shanties, a sub genre of folk *song, were songs sung on board sailing ships to assist with the hard manual work involved by providing rhythmic co ordination among the team of workers and also enlivening their toil. The basic pattern of a… … A Dictionary of English folklore
Shanty — may refer to:* Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake * Sea shanty, shipboard working songs * Shanty Hogan (1906 1967), Major League Baseball catcher * Shanty town, unit of irregular, low cost dwellingsee also* Shanty Bay * Shanty… … Wikipedia
shanty — Ⅰ. shanty [1] ► NOUN (pl. shanties) ▪ a small, crudely built shack. ORIGIN perhaps from Canadian French chantier lumberjack s cabin, logging camp . Ⅱ. shanty [2] (also chanty or sea sha … English terms dictionary
Sea song — may refer to: *another name for a sea shanty, shipboard working songs which flourished from the fifteenth century to the first half of the 20th century. * Sea Songs , an arrangement by Ralph Vaughan Williams. * Sea Song a song by Doves from their … Wikipedia
shanty — 1. n. (pl. ies) 1 a hut or cabin. 2 a crudely built shack. Phrases and idioms: shanty town a poor or depressed area of a town, consisting of shanties. Etymology: 19th c., orig. N.Amer.: perh. f. Can.F chantier 2. n. (also chanty) (pl. ies) (in… … Useful english dictionary
shanty — shan|ty [ˈʃænti] n plural shanties [Sense: 1; Date: 1800 1900; : Canadian French; Origin: chantier, from French, wooden support , from Latin cantherius trellis ] [Sense: 2; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: chantey] … Dictionary of contemporary English
shanty — shanty1 noun (plural shanties) a small, crudely built shack. Origin C19: perh. from Canad. Fr. chantier lumberjack s cabin, logging camp . shanty2 (Brit. also sea shanty; archaic or US chantey or chanty) noun (plural … English new terms dictionary
shanty — noun (C) 1 (C) a small, roughly built hut made from thin sheets of wood, tin 1 (1), plastic etc that very poor people live in 2 (C) sea shanty a song sung by sailors in former times, as they did their work … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
