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tranters

tranters is the plural of tranter.

Meaning of tranter

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Tranters

Tranters

  1. (plural) plural of Tranter

Questions about tranters

What is tranters the plural of?
Tranters is the plural of tranter.
What part of speech is tranters?
Tranters is a proper noun.

Words near tranters in the dictionary

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

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