CHAUNTER

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

3.
n.

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


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