He heard the sailors running away with their end of the rope and shouting a chanty and stamping their feet.
And the sailors jumped for the ropes, although they were pretty tired, and they swung the yards around, two at a time, with a chanty for each.
The thrill that a whole-lunged chanty gives is difficult to describe.
And then a chanty would rise, the voice of the leader quavering with that wild rhythm which had come down to him, a vocal heritage, through centuries of tom-toms and generations of savages striving for emotional expression.
I find a great difference between the old-fashioned chanty man and the modern seaman who never sings at his work.
Sharkey could hear the hoarse voices of his rovers singing their chanty over the water.
From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque.
A chanty was lustily sung when hoisting the yard up, and when they undertook to reef the main topsail it was quite obvious the over plentiful supply of grog was taking serious effect.
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.
In a more or less extensive, though desultory, reading of a little of almost everything, the writer has never stumbled upon any chanty or verse from which the famous quatrain might have sprung.
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.
Walt Mason saw the versification was artful instead of "bungling and crude," but the Times critic knows a copy out of a "chanty book" when he sees it.
A chanty contained one verse or line only, the rest depending on the composition of the man who sang the verse or line.
Indeed, his "chanty began at home;" and it was so fond of its residence, that it stopped there.
To have been born on the other side of the British Channel, spread an ocean between every poor foreigner and Mr. Vincent's purse which the swiftest wings of chanty could never cross.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chanty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
