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# chanty

«chanty» in Mova's school dictionary: **A song that sailors sang long ago while they worked…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a chanty, chanties) — another spelling of shanty

### meaning for a pupil

1) A song that sailors sang long ago while they worked together, pulling ropes or turning the capstan; also spelled «shanty» and «chantey». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#m1)

2) Not the same word as «shanty» meaning a rough hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Found in sea stories and music lessons. Sea chanties have a strong beat so that the sailors could pull at the same moment; one person sings a line and the crew answers. In The Wind in the Willows the Sea Rat talks of sailors' songs and ports.

### examples

- The sailors sang a chanty as they pulled up the anchor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x1)
- In music we learned an old sea chanty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x2)
- One sailor sang the line and the others answered in the chanty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x3)
- The chanty helped them pull the rope together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x4)
- «What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?» is a famous chanty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x5)
- The old seaman hummed a chanty while he mended the nets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x6)
- Our class sang chanties at the school concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/#x7)

### note

Spellings: chanty, chantey, shanty — the same sea song; «shanty» is commonest today. Plural: chanties. Say «SHAN-tee» (the «ch» sounds like «sh»). Do not mix up with «shanty» = a poor hut (shanty town).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chanty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chanty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.