"tranter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From trant + -er.",
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      "form": "tranters",
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          "ref": "1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II: The Tranter's”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 13:",
          "text": "Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the left hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy’s father, Reuben, by vocation a ‘tranter’, or irregular carrier.",
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          "text": "1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead\nAn’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast\nVrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.\nHe wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,\nVor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;"
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          "ref": "1929, Florence Hardy, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1841-1891:",
          "text": "...the persons tenanting these few houses included two retired military officers, one old navy lieutenant, a small farmer and tranter, a relieving officer and registrar, and an old militiaman […]",
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        "a peddler."
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        "(obsolete, UK, dialect) a peddler."
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  "word": "tranter"
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          "ref": "1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II: The Tranter's”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 13:",
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          "text": "1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead\nAn’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast\nVrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.\nHe wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,\nVor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;"
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