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Posted By: Gibb Sahib
26-Dec-10 - 04:16 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
BOYER'S ROYAL DICTIONARY, abridged, by Abel Boyer, additions by N. Salmon. London: Meffra, etc.1802.
Entry for French "voix":
"...Voix, Mar. fong employed by failors in heaving, hoifting, hauling, &c...."