Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
chanter is a noun meaning "reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played". It carries one recorded sense.
reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chanter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.