ranter

To pour liquor from a large into a smaller vessel.

A large beer-jug.

Same as renter.

One who rants; a noisy talker; a boisterous preacher, actor, or the like.

A name applied

By way of reproach, to the members of an English Antinomian sect of the Commonwealth period, variously associated with the Familists, etc.

Also, opprobriously, to the Primitive Methodists, who formed themselves into a society in 1810, although the founders had separated from the old Methodist society some years before, the ground of disagreement being that the new body favored street preaching, camp-meetings, etc.

A merry, roving fellow; a jolly drinker.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.