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tranter

tranter noun: a peddler.

Noun

tranter (plural tranters)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) a peddler.
    • Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the left hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy’s father, Reuben, by vocation a ‘tranter’, or irregular carrier.1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II: The Tranter's”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 13
    • An’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast
      Vrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.
      He wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,
      Vor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead

Proper noun capitalized: Tranter

Tranter (plural Tranters)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Forms of tranter

Noun
pluraltranters
alternative formtraunter
Proper noun
pluralTranters

Origin of tranter

From trant + -er.

From tranter, an occupational surname for a peddler.

Questions about tranter

What does tranter mean?
Tranter means a peddler.
What part of speech is tranter?
Tranter can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tranter?
The plural of tranter is tranters.

Words near tranter in the dictionary

  1. transzygomatic
  2. Trans–New Guinea
  3. trant
  4. trantastic
  5. tranted
  6. tranter
  7. tranters
  8. Trantham
  9. Tranthams
  10. tranthyretin
  11. Trantifa

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