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Chaunter

Chaunter \Chaunt"er\, n.

  1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

  2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.]

    He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.
    --Dickens.

  3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

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chaunter

n. 1 (context UK slang obsolete English) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. 2 (context colloquial English) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. 3 The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

Usage examples of "chaunter".

He thought of Ireland, a place he had never visited, as a land of mists and gentle green hills, enlivened by the fiddle and the chaunter, where poets like Yeats and O’Faolain wandered and composed.