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pannikels

pannikels is the plural of pannikel.

Meaning of pannikel

Noun

pannikel (plural pannikels)

  1. (obsolete) The brain-pan, or skull; hence, the crest.
    • To him he turned, and with rigor fell / Smote him so rudely on the pannikell1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about pannikels

What is pannikels the plural of?
Pannikels is the plural of pannikel.

Words near pannikels in the dictionary

  1. pannies
  2. panniform
  3. pannikel
  4. pannikell
  5. pannikells
  6. pannikels
  7. pannikin
  8. pannikin boss
  9. pannikin bosses
  10. pannikinful
  11. pannikinfuls

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