Definition of "tranter" [trant•er]

• One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. (noun)

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• "‘He could no more play the Wold Hundredth to his true time than he could play the brazen serpent,’ the tranter would say."
• "Saying this the tranter arose to fetch a new stock of cider, ale, mead, and home-made wines."
• "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."