Pantle

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of panter (“A net or noose for catching birds”) applying only to snares or gins made of hair. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

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”).

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