Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chaunter \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.