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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The servant in charge of the bread and the pantry in a great house. obsolete

   "A good shallow young fellow. ’A would have made a pantler; ’a would ha’ chipp’d bread well."

Example

More examples

"A good shallow young fellow. ’A would have made a pantler; ’a would ha’ chipp’d bread well."

Etymology

From pantelere, a dissimilated variant of Middle English panterere, from panetrie; equivalent to pantry + -er.

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