Chanter vs Chaunter - What's the difference?
chanter | chaunter |
One who chants or sings
A priest who sings in a chantry
The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played
The hedge sparrow.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
(colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
* Dickens
The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between chanter and chaunter
is that chanter is one who chants or sings while chaunter is (uk|slang|obsolete) a street seller of ballads and other broadsides.chanter
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(en noun)Anagrams
* ----chaunter
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(en noun)- He was a horse chaunter ; he's a leg now.