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traunter

traunter is the alternative form 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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Forms of traunter

pluraltraunters

Questions about traunter

What is traunter the alternative form of?
Traunter is the alternative form of tranter.

Words near traunter in the dictionary

  1. traunched
  2. traunches
  3. traunching
  4. traunt
  5. traunted
  6. traunter
  7. traunters
  8. traunting
  9. traunts
  10. Trausch
  11. Trausches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: traunter (page history and authors); tranter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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