English Explanatory Dictionary

shantyman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
noun
  1. A lumberjack

Word forms

shantyman shantymen

Etymology

From shanty + -man.

Synonyms

chanteyman lumberjack logger
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