chaunt

[chawnt, chahnt]

noun, verb (used with or without object) Obsolete.

chant.

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Examples from the Web for chaunt

Historical Examples

I answered, 'That is well,' and began to chaunt the song of death.
Atala
Franois Auguste de Chateaubriand
Chaunt then till I go to sleep, and if I wake when you stop, you 'll have this at your head.
Doctor Birch and His Young Friends
M. A. Titmarsh
I wonder whether we could find some old mariner, who could give us a chaunt from Tasso?
A Love Story
A Bushman
And then, above the rain storm that beat loudly on the corrugated iron, I heard the sound of a chaunt.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
Winston Spencer Churchill
As soon as the parties are formed, all sit down on the ground, and begin to chaunt prayers in a slow and subdued tone.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 437, March 1852
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British Dictionary definitions for chaunt

chaunt

noun, verb

a less common variant of chant

Derived Formschaunter, noun

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chaunt

Examples from the Web for chaunt

Historical Examples

I answered, 'That is well,' and began to chaunt the song of death.

Chaunt then till I go to sleep, and if I wake when you stop, you 'll have this at your head.

I wonder whether we could find some old mariner, who could give us a chaunt from Tasso?

And then, above the rain storm that beat loudly on the corrugated iron, I heard the sound of a chaunt.

As soon as the parties are formed, all sit down on the ground, and begin to chaunt prayers in a slow and subdued tone.

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