Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chanty.

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Examples

  • An old fashioned "chantie" or in more polite language, a chamber pot.

    icAyrshire 2009

  • I think Percy Smith was strongest at coon songs, and Trail sang all sorts, and G. and Kirke played accompaniments, whilst the writer picked out his own to a chantie respecting the procedure to be taken with an inebriated mariner -- such a merry evening!

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

  • Thefe do continually call vpon the care of the dcadjand with impor* tunate praifingitjdo make it to be preferred aboue all dutieful works of chantie.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

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