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pantle

pantle is the alternative form of panter.

Meaning of panter

Noun (1)

panter (plural panters)

  1. One who pants.
    • Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing

Noun (2)

panter (plural panters)

  1. (obsolete) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
    • as though all the bread be committed unto the pantera. 1536, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

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Forms of pantle

pluralpantles

Origin of pantle

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”).

Questions about pantle

What is pantle the alternative form of?
Pantle is the alternative form of panter.

Words near pantle in the dictionary

  1. pantisocratic
  2. pantisocratical
  3. pantisocratist
  4. pantisocratists
  5. pantisocrats
  6. pantle
  7. pantleg
  8. pantlegs
  9. pantler
  10. pantlers
  11. pantles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantle (page history and authors); panter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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