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GUEST,Phil d'Conch	Maritime work song in general (714* d)	RE: Maritime work song in general	18 Feb 22
“AY'SSA, the cry of failors when the hoife anchor, or any other great weight, that they may all pull together, Our failors cry hoife. CALOMA'R, the fong or cry of failors when they hale at a rope all together. Yça, a word us'd by failors, to pull together, in weighing anchor or hoifing the yards, as ours cry hoife.” [A New Dictionary, Spanish and English, Stevens, 1726] “CALOMAR.f.m. Cierto canto y tono que hacen los marineros, quando tiran de algun cabo ò cofa que fe requiere tirar muchos juntos à una, y con efte clamór fe aunan para el punto de aplicar la fuerza, y fe animan unos à otros. Palac. Inftr. Naut. Oy fe dice Zalomar.Lat.Celeúfma,tos. [Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana, Tom.II, Real Academia Española, 1729]

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