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tranter - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun ripper .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun obsolete, UK, dialect One who trants ; a peddler ; a carrier .
Etymologies
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Examples
“Say, ‘Thank you, sir,’” the tranter whispered imperatively towards Leaf.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
“Drown en! — drown en!” the tranter cried, fiddling frantically.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
Behind him, on the left, came the treble singers and Dick; and on the right the tranter and the tenors.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
The tranter cleared his throat after this accidental parenthesis about Leaf, rectified his bodily position, and began his speech.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
Leaf looked with gratitude at the tranter for these praises, and then anxiously at Geoffrey, to see what effect they would have in helping his cause.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
“Devil take the hole, the cask, and Sam Lawson too, that good cider should be wasted like this!” exclaimed the tranter .
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
Saying this the tranter arose to fetch a new stock of cider, ale, mead, and home-made wines.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
‘He could no more play the Wold Hundredth to his true time than he could play the brazen serpent,’ the tranter would say.
The Fiddler of the Reels 2006
The tranter took for his partner Mrs. Penny, and Mrs. Dewy was chosen by Mr. Penny, who made so much of his limited height by a judicious carriage of the head, straightening of the back, and important flashes of his spectacle-glasses, that he seemed almost as tall as the tranter.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
And the tranter gave vent to a grim admiration, with the mien of a man who was too magnanimous not to appreciate artistically a slight rap on the knuckles, even if they were his own.
Under the Greenwood Tree 2006
qms commented on the word tranter
In dark streets the living have flown
A ghostly voice pleads all alone.
The cry of that tranter,
Ethereal chanter,
Is that of sweet Molly Malone.
August 4, 2017