chaunter
nounEtymology Variant of chanter.
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Colloquial A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
- He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
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The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
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Obsolete Obsolete spelling of chanter