chaunter

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

chaunter, n. 

•  A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.  [1913 Webster]
•  A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.  [1913 Webster]

  "He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now."  [1913 Webster]
•  The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

chaunter

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, 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, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.