chanter

Etymology

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

noun

  1. One who chants or sings.
  2. A priest who sings in a chantry.
  3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
    the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all. 1860s, anon, Lanigan's Ball (song)
  4. The hedge sparrow.
  5. (archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

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