English Explanatory Dictionary

headpan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A round bowl-like container, used in construction work and usually carried on one's head.
  2. The skull or neurocranium.

Word forms

headpan headpans head pan head-pan

Etymology

From Middle English heed panne, heved pan, from Old English hēafodpanne (“skull”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubudapannā, equivalent to head + pan. Cognate with Middle Low German hö̂vetpanne (“head, skull”).

Synonyms

brainpan harnpan

Derived words

headpanful
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