tranter

American  

[tran-ter] / ˈtræn tər /

noun

British Dialect.

1. a peddler, hawker, or carrier using a horse and cart.

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Etymology

Origin of tranter

1350–1400; alteration of late Middle English traventer < Medieval Latin travetārius, perhaps for Latin trānsvect ( us ), past participle of trānsvehere to carry across + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

The tranter stood as still as a sentinel at the challenge.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

‘He could no more play the Wold Hundredth to his true time than he could play the brazen serpent,’ the tranter would say. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

The tranter moved a pace, as if it were puerile of people to complete sentences when there were more pressing things to be done.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

“I’m afraid Dick’s a lost man,” said the tranter.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

“Now to my mind that woman is very romantical on the matter o’ children?” said the tranter, his eye sweeping his audience.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas