Chapter Chaser to Chaunter of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Chauffer
(Chauf"fer) n. [Cf. F. chauffoir a kind of stone, fr. chauffer to heat. See Chafe.] (Chem.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Chauldron
(Chaul"dron) n. See Chawdron. [Obs.]

Chaun
(Chaun) n. A gap. [Obs.] Colgrave.

Chaun
(Chaun), v. t. & i. To open; to yawn. [Obs.]

O, chaun thy breast.
Marston.

Chaunt
(Chaunt) n. & v. See Chant.

Chaunter
(Chaunt"er) n.

1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.
Dickens.

3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.