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Chaunter   Listen
noun
Chaunter  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."
3.
The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.





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"Chaunter" Quotes from Famous Books



... by themselves have a musical meaning are 'Chaunter' and 'Drums'; but the Chaunter referred to is one of Edward Dorrit's creditors, and the word means 'not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses.' To this profession also Simpson belonged, on whom Mr. Pickwick was 'chummed' in the Fleet prison. ...
— Charles Dickens and Music • James T. Lightwood


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