DCHP-3

chanter

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

in lumber and other camps, a ballad singer; a singer of chanteys.

Quotations

1909
If McWha chanced to be singing, for he was a "chanter" of some note, he would appear so utterly absorbed that Rosy-Lilly would at last slip away. . . .