\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.