'Chaunter' definitions:

Definition of 'Chaunter'

From: GCIDE

Chaunter \Chaunt"er\, n.
1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster]
2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. [1913 Webster]