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chantyman

chantyman is the alternative form of shantyman.

Meaning of shantyman

Noun (1)

shantyman (plural shantymen)

  1. The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
    Synonyms:
    chanteyman

Noun (2)

shantyman (plural shantymen)

  1. (Canada) A lumberjack
    Synonyms:
    lumberjack, logger

Forms of chantyman

pluralchantymen

Questions about chantyman

What is chantyman the alternative form of?
Chantyman is the alternative form of shantyman.

Words near chantyman in the dictionary

  1. chantuelle
  2. chantuelles
  3. chantwell
  4. chantwells
  5. chanty
  6. chantyman
  7. chantymen
  8. Chanuca
  9. Chanucca
  10. Chanuccah
  11. Chanuka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chantyman (page history and authors); shantyman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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