It is literally a sailor’s chantey sung in the terms of movement instead of words of mouth; even to its division into short stanzas (one for each of the duties represented) the parallel is exact.
Its place in the dancing art might be defined as the same as the position of the sailor’s chantey in music.
The song or chantey was familiar to deep-sea sailors many years ago.
He was tied like a hog, and hauled up by a couple of ropes, the sailmaker singing a humorous chantey that made the boys laugh, as they pulled away.
Voices rippled from chantey to roundelay and back to chantey again.
The ululant surge of the beche-de-mer anchor chantey floated aft as the blacks resumed their rhythmic tramp around the capstan.
Even as he spoke the throbbing wail of a chanteycame to our ears across the water, and I could just make out the blur of motion on the forecastle where a knot of niggers was circling round the capstan.
From beneath the dark tanks the hareem sent up a decomposed odor, and a melancholy slave chantey saturated the corridors, a low droning osmosis.
But, bearing in mind his skipper's orders concerning the kind of song he was to sing, his chantey this time dealt neither with the eternal feminine nor the flowing bowl.
He sang, not a chantey this time, but portions of a revival hymn which he had recently heard and which, because of its nautical nature, had stuck in his memory.
Judah Cahoon, besides being sea cook on many, many voyages, had been "chantey man" on almost as many.
He had been bending over the cookstove singing at the top of his lungs the interminable chantey dealing with the fortunes of one Reuben Ranzo.
Leave her is the set chantey for finish of a voyage, and we roar a lusty chorus to Granger, the chanteyman.
Because of the joyousness of his chantey in response, he had cuddled warm in the shipping many a night between Havre and Quebec, and in the canoes between Quebec and Mackinaw, when others shivered neglected.
Then someone in the forecastle began to sing; it came faint but distinct, some old Malayan chantey drifting aft as the wide wings of the wind moved across that great world of waters.
A chantey does the work of ten men, so walk her raound an' sing aout!
The ancient chantey "took hold" and the men woke up from their sullen apathy and stamped around the clinking capstan roaring the plaintive refrains to the negro's quavering solo.
Short-handed as she was, never did sailors swing into the ancient chantey in better tune and with more cheerfulness.
Weirdly, echoing back from the wall of the jungle and hollowly from the hillside, the improvised chantey was raised by Barker, and the chorus line taken up by the other seamen as though they were jerking aloft the schooner's topsails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chantey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anthem; ballad; blues; canticle; chant; dirge; ditty; lay; lied; lilt; serenade; song
