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What do the sounds of yo-ho-ho in the pirate song from the novel Treasure Island mean?

A famous song from Stevenson's novel Treasure Island sings: "Fifteen men for a dead man's chest. Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" It is logical to assume that "yo-ho-ho" is the laughter of pirates, but this is not so. Such an exclamation was used by English sailors when they needed to simultaneously make efforts in some kind of work - in Russian it corresponds to the phrase "one, two, they took it!".

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