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Chaunt
(gcide) | Chaunt \Chaunt\, n. & v.
See Chant.
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Chaunter
(gcide) | Chaunter \Chaunt"er\, n.
1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang,
Eng.]
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2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.]
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He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. --Dickens.
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3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
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Chaunterie
(gcide) | Chaunterie \Chaunt"er*ie\, n.
See Chantry. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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To chaunt horses
(gcide) | Chant \Chant\, v. i.
1. To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the
sound of the viol." --Amos vi. 5.
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2. (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.
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To chant horses or To chaunt horses, to sing their
praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See
Chaunter. --Thackeray.
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