shanties in English

noun
1
a small, crudely built shack.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
synonyms:shackhut(log) cabinlean-toshedhovel

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1. Black smoke Billowed over burning shanties and …

2. Comfortable, sumptuous homes exist alongside crowded, unhealthy shanties.

3. Its slopes were covered by a ragtag collection of shanties.

4. Synonyms for Bustees include slums, ghettos, hovels, favelas, purlieus, rookeries, shanties and skid rows

5. Miners lived in tents, wood shanties, or deck cabins removed from abandoned ships.

6. Bounding Main is an American a cappella quintet focusing on traditional sea shanties and maritime music.

7. On the far side of the pond the shanties started, the lowest-lying cluster surrounded by water, flooded.

8. Bounding Main is an American a cappella quintet focusing on traditional sea shanties and maritime music.

9. An Antiphon is a call-and-response style of singing, from Gregorian chants to sea shanties

10. But listen, friends: The correct way to spell the name of these tunes is sea Chanteys, not sea shanties.

11. Much of the region's music focuses on the strong seafaring tradition in the area, and includes sea shanties and other sailing songs.

12. In American Folk Ballads, the songs range from sea shanties such as “Shenandoah” to children’s songs such as “Little Brown Dog”

13. The flickering glow of oil lamps can be seen through the dingy-paned windows of row after row of dilapidated shanties lining the mountainside.

14. In Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands Lydia Parrish writes of worksongs called “shanties or Chanteys” sung by African Americans working on planta-

15. Kann mir jemand helfen? "Ahead were the Lights of the shanties where the Indian Barkpeelers lived" aus "Indian Camp" von Ernest Hamingway

16. Historically, Chanteys – which are also spelled as “shanties” or “chanties” – began with a sing-out by a crew member recognized as “the chanteyman,” usually someone prized for …

17. ‘Our grandparents survived the Great Depression, the Breadlines, the shanties, the World Wars, Viet Nam, and so many more things that we can't put into our own short lifespan.’

18. Wood was piled up for a supply of fuel through the night, shanties were being rigged up for the officers, pots were being boiled, and arms and accoutrements set to rights.

19. Capstan shanties were used when sailors needed to raise or lower sails by walking around the capstan, while halyard Chanteys were used by sailors when they needed to pull on the yards of the ship to which the sails are attached.

20. Cheerly man oh haulee hi-ho Cheerly man The author of this website has put a lot of time and effort into gathering the greatest collection of sea shanties for the world to enjoy - There are songs that have been to sung to a job of work at sea for many, many years and collecting them has been a great endeavour.