English Explanatory Dictionary

pantle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative form of panter (“A net or noose for catching birds”) applying only to snares or gins made of hair.

Word forms

pantle pantles

Etymology

From Middle English pantelle (cf. pontel), from pantere, or either a variant of panter or a word derived from the same source (Anglo-Norman panter). Appears already by the 15th century. By surface analysis, panter + -le (“suffix forming diminutives”).

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