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chantey

/shan-tee, chan-/US // ˈʃæn ti, ˈtʃæn- //UK // (ˈʃæntɪ, ˈtʃæn-) //

贞德,贞操,贞德的,贞观

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural chant·eys.

    • : a variant of shanty.

Examples

  • The black chantey-man answered and joined Jones, and the mate mustered representatives of four continents as he drawled, “Valdez!”

  • Voices rippled from chantey to roundelay and back to chantey again.

  • The old mans chantey—it now had to do with one Old Stormy, alleged to be dead and gone—promptly ceased.

  • So intent had he been that he had quite failed to notice the cessation of the old cooks chantey.

  • Now, I say that Czerny's men were firing rifle-shots at the anchored schooner, and that sound was a true chantey for our ears.