Chaunter

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.