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Bagpipe vs Chaunter - What's the difference?

bagpipe | chaunter |

As nouns the difference between bagpipe and chaunter

is that bagpipe is singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural) while chaunter is (uk|slang|obsolete) a street seller of ballads and other broadsides.

As a verb bagpipe

is to play the bagpipes.

bagpipe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural)

    • Verb

    (bagpip)
  • To play the bagpipes.
  • (nautical) To lay (the mizzen) aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.

    • chaunter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
  • (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
  • * Dickens
    • He was a horse chaunter ; he's a leg now.
  • The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
    • (Webster 1913) ----