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.
© Webster 1913.