Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeper of the pantry.
- noun A net; snare; trap.
- noun An obsolete variant of
panther . Comparepainter . - noun One who pants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pants.
- noun obsolete A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
- noun obsolete A net; a noose.
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- noun
Agent noun ofpant ; one who pants. - noun obsolete A
net ; anoose .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which has seized on my panter, since thou didst depart; [6]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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A book entitled "Ffor to serve a Lorde," in 1500, directs the "boteler" or "panter," to bring forth the principal salt, and to "set the saler in the myddys of the table."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Thenne the seconde seler att the lower ende, with ij paryd loves therby, and trenchours of brede yf they be ordeyned; and in case be that trenchours of tree shalbe ordeyned, the panter shall bryng them with nappekyns and sponys whenne the soverayne is sette att tabill.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Trenchere lovis, 14/197; p. 84; 154/35; p. 157; loaves of coarse unsifted meal; the panter to bring in three, 200/667.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Table for dinner, how the ewer and panter are to lay it, p. 199-201.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Thenne the boteler or panter shall sette the seler in the myddys of the tabull accordyng to the place where the principall soverain shalle sette, and sette his brede iuste couched unto the salte-seler; and yf ther be trenchours of brede, sette them iuste before the seler, and lay downe faire the kervyng knyves, the poynts to the seler benethe the trenchours.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Thenne here-uppon the boteler or panter shall bring forthe his pryncipall salte, and iiij or v loves of paryd brede, havyng a towaile aboute his nekke, the tone half honge or lying uppon his lefte arme unto his hande, and the kervyng knyves holdyng in the ryght hande, iuste unto the salte-seler beryng.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Saxon _bynder_, through the Anglo-Norman _panter_, and that _derrick_ is from _Derrick_ the hangman, I may add that these words are unknown in the nautical technology of any other language.
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We did'nt make quite as much noise as a panter and a pack of hounds, but we made some.
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Or, indeed, we may go no farther back than panter.
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