A row; a spree.
If this 'cre isn't that are singing chap agin. He's on a shindy somewhere or other every night.--J. C. Neal, P. Ploddy, p. 18.
·noun Hockey; shinney. II. Shindy ·noun A fancy or liking. III. Shindy ·noun An uproar or disturba...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A dance. SEA PHRASE. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A kind of dance among seamen; but also a row. Apparently modernized from the old Erse sheean, clamou...
The Sailor's Word-Book