Usually means: Traditional sea song, sailors' work.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. chantey: Merriam-Webster
  2. chantey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chantey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chantey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chantey: Vocabulary.com
  6. chantey: Wordnik
  7. chantey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chantey: Wiktionary
  9. chantey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chantey (chanty): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chantey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chantey, chantey: Dictionary.com
  13. Chantey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. chantey: Rhymezone
  15. chantey: FreeDictionary.org
  16. chantey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. chantey: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chantey: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chantey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See chanteys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Chantey)

noun:  Alternative form of shanty (sailor's song). [A roughly-built hut or cabin.]

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