\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.