Tranter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tranter is a noun meaning (obsolete, UK, dialect) a peddler.
Meaning
(obsolete, UK, dialect) a peddler.
Example Sentences
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.
...the persons tenanting these few houses included two retired military officers, one old navy lieutenant, a small farmer and tranter, a relieving officer and registrar, and an old militiaman […]
1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead 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;
Word Forms
- tranters
- traunter
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include traunter, trotter-man, tangler, patterer, chaunter, peddar.
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