chanter

noun

Etymology: From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

1. One who chants or sings.
2. A priest who sings in a chantry.
3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.

   “the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.”

4. The hedge sparrow.
5. One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.