Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Chaunter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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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