tranter

== English == === Alternative forms === traunter === Etymology === From trant +‎ -er. === Noun === tranter (plural tranters) (obsolete, UK, dialect) a peddler. 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; === References === “tranter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.