pantle

English

Etymology

From Middle English pantelle (cf. pontel), from paunter, 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”).

Noun

pantle (plural pantles)

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

References

  • “pantle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ J. Davies (January 1883) “The Celtic Element in the Lancashire Dialect (continued from p. 264, vol. xiii, 4th Series)”, in Archæologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association, vol. xiv, 4th Series, number liii, page 13: “The Lancashire panter or pantel is not a net, but a snare or gin made of hair. Snare meant prim. a cord ; O. N. snara, laqueus; Sw. snara, a lace, a cord, a knot; Fr. lacet, a lace, a springe (Cotg.)”
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