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what is a chanter chauster?!

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Slug & Lettuce

Slug & Lettuce Report 10 Aug 2009 16:30

Hi Teresa
I can only find a french definition
Work with me on this one .............................
Seems she fell on a harp and banged her head?
chanter = harp strings
chauster = beaten on the head
Ria xxx

SpanishEyes

SpanishEyes Report 10 Aug 2009 16:16

Could it be a Chaunter which has three definitions

1.Someone who sells ballads and broadsides so it cannot be that.
2. Something to do with a cheating Jockey so that isn't it
3 Chaunter The flute of a bagpipe.

Googled the word Chaunter


Bridget

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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 10 Aug 2009 14:45

Hmm yes I came up with bagpipes too.

Are you sure those are the words? Can you read them clearly.

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Kate

Kate Report 10 Aug 2009 14:31

It couldn't be "chester" or "chesterfield", could it? I know a chesterfield is a sofa - perhaps it was abbreviated? I just thought, perhaps she collapsed face down on the upholstery and couldn't get up.

GranOfOzRubySlippers

GranOfOzRubySlippers Report 10 Aug 2009 14:17

I had a google and could not find a chauster, a Chanter came up with something to do with bagpipes!!!

Sorry, not very helpful.

Gail

Teresa

Teresa Report 10 Aug 2009 13:57

I have reason for death as follows "suffocation from want of fresh air by falling face downwards across a chanter / chauster when she fainted whilst suffering from disease of heart"
She worked in a boarding house / hotel
Teresa x