chaunter
English
Noun
chaunter (plural chaunters)
- (Britain, 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.
- Dickens
- The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chaunter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Old French
Verb
chaunter
- (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of chaunter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | chaunter | aveir chaunté | |||||
gerund | en chauntant | Use the gerund of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
present participle | chauntant | ||||||
past participle | chaunté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses | present | chaunt | chauntes | chaunte | chauntons | chauntez | chauntent |
imperfect | chaunteie, chauntoe, chaunteve | chaunteies, chauntoes, chaunteves | chaunteit, chauntot, chaunteve | chauntiiens, chauntiens | chauntiiez, chauntiez | chaunteient, chauntoent, chauntevent | |
preterite | chauntai | chauntas | chaunta | chauntames | chauntastes | chaunterent | |
future | chaunterai | chaunteras | chauntera | chaunterons | chauntereiz, chaunterez | chaunteront | |
conditional | chauntereie | chauntereies | chauntereit | chaunteriiens, chaunteriens | chaunteriiez, chaunteriez | chauntereient | |
compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior | Use the preterite tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses | present | chaunt | chaunz | chaunt | chauntons | chauntez | chauntent |
imperfect | chauntasse | chauntasses | chauntast | chauntissons, chauntissiens | chauntisseiz, chauntissez, chauntissiez | chauntassent | |
compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | chaunte | — | chauntons | chauntez | — |