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Chaunter
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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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bard &c (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer^, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper. band, orchestral waits. vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster,
chaunter
^, chauntress^, songstress; cantatrice^. choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.]. nightingale, philomel^, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo^, the Muses Erato, Euterpe,
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