Contextualizebeta

shantyman

noun

Etymology

From shanty + -man.

  1. borrowed from chantier
  2. suffixed as shantyman — “shanty + man”

Definitions

  1. The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the…

    The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)

  2. A lumberjack

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shantyman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA