(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:27:02

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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