different between broadside vs chaunter

English

Etymology

broad +? side

Noun

broadside (plural broadsides)

1. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
2. (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
   • 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)

     Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.

   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.

3. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
4. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Translations

Adverb

broadside (not comparable)

1. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

Translations

Verb

broadside (third-person singular simple present broadsides, present participle broadsiding, simple past and past participle broadsided)

1. (transitive) To collide with something sideways on

References

• broadside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• sideboard

English

Etymology

Variant of chanter.

Noun

chaunter (plural chaunters)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
2. (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.

   • He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.

3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

Middle English

Noun

chaunter

1. Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)

Old French

Verb

chaunter

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.