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"etymology_text": "Variant of chanter.",
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"A street seller of ballads or similar songs."
],
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads or similar songs."
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"ref": "1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:",
"text": "He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.",
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"A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey."
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"(colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey."
],
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"The chanter or flute of a bagpipe."
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"(colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey."
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