The chaunt by which the leadsman in the chains proclaims his soundings at each cast:
"To heave the lead the seaman sprung,
And to the pilot cheerly sung,
By the deep
nine."
·- ·adj & ·noun from Sing, v. II. Singing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sing>>. ...
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