• (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. • (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. • (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
Chaunt'er noun 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 , 
Chaunter is slang for a street seller of newspapers.