chaunter

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]