pannel

English

Etymology

An old spelling of panel which became standard in falconry.

Noun

pannel (plural pannels)

  1. (falconry) The stomach of a hawk.[1]
    • 1860, John Potter Hamilton, Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman:
      Glut is the slimy substance that lies in the hawk's pannel.
  2. Obsolete form of panel.
    • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VIII, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. [], volume III, London: [] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, [], →OCLC, page 111:
      He carefully directed his eye over the wainscot, across every pannel; []

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Verb

pannel (third-person singular simple present pannels, present participle (US) panneling or (UK) pannelling, simple past and past participle (US) panneled or (UK) pannelled)

  1. Obsolete form of panel.

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