Headpan

noun

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

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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”).

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