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Panter
//ˈpæntə(ɹ)// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Middle English.
Noun
- 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."
- 2 A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. obsolete
"as though all the bread be committed unto the panter"
- 3 Obsolete form of panther. alt-of, obsolete
Etymology
Etymology 1
From pant + -er.
Etymology 2
From Middle English panter (“pantler”), paneter, from Old French panetier.
Etymology 3
An occupational surname, from Middle English panter (“manager of the pantry and food”).
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