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sea shanties

sea shanties is the plural of sea shanty.

Meaning of sea shanty

Noun

sea shanty (plural sea shanties)

  1. A work song that sailors historically sang in rhythm to their movement.

Questions about sea shanties

What is sea shanties the plural of?
Sea shanties is the plural of sea shanty.

Words near sea shanties in the dictionary

  1. Sea Scouts
  2. sea scurf
  3. sea scurfs
  4. sea serpent
  5. sea serpents
  6. sea shanties
  7. sea shanty
  8. sea shell
  9. sea sheller
  10. sea shelling
  11. sea shells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea shanties (page history and authors); sea shanty (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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