chaunt

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

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chaunt (tʃɔːnt)

—n, —vb
	a less common variant of chant

'chaunter

—n

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Chaunt is always a great word to know.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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"If I were as I once was, the strong hoofs crushing the sand and the shells,
Coming out of the sea as the dawn comes, a chaunt of love on my lips,
Not coughing, my head on my knees, and praying, and wroth with the bells,
I would leave no saint's head on his body from Rachlin to Bera of ships."

-William Butler Yeats

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