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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