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Thread #125224   Message #3904572
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
09-Feb-18 - 07:50 AM
Thread Name: Shanty or Chantey?
Subject: RE: Shanty or Chantey?
Won't solve anything but...

At the other end of the Mississippi from the lumberjacks, "chantier" usage had more emphasis on the "tier," as in layered stacks (or stocks.)

A lumberman's chantier was a stockpile.

A nautical chantier was the scaffolding under and around a ship on the ways, also a kind of "stock" in English.