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Definition of Tranter
1. n. One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Definition of Tranter
1. Noun. (obsolete UK dialect) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tranter
1. a hawker [n -S] - See also: hawker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tranter
Literary usage of Tranter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"At last tranter came ; I opened the door to him, he run up stairs, I staid to
shut the door, and 1 heard a rustling or noise ; upon which I ran up stairs ..."
2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"the tranter,' ie a pedlar, a hawker. D. tränten, to walk slowly (Annandale). ...
Annes tranter : ibid. 1739. — John Pegs; and Eli*. Traunter: St. Geo. Han. ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Did you bear any noise, or bustle* or blow?—Hargrove. No. LCJ None at all?
that I went up stairs again. Hargrove. No; it wa« after tranter came LCJ When ..."
4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1812)
"At last tranter came ; I opened the door to him, he run up stairs, I staid to
shut the door, and 1 heard a rustling or noise ; upon which I ran up stairs ..."
5. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"esque church, and also to imagine where tranter Dewy, that quaint character in
Under the ... tranter ..."
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