Definitions for pannier

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pannier pan·nier

Spelling: [pan-yer, -ee-er]

IPA: /ˈpæn yər, -i ər/

Pannier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in pannier (aeinnpr).

Definitions for pannier

noun

1. a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
2. a basket for carrying on a person's back, or one of a pair to be slung across the back of a beast of burden.
3. a similar type of bag, usually one of a pair, fastened over a bicycle's rear wheel.
4. (on a dress, skirt, etc.) a puffed arrangement of drapery at the hips.
5. an oval framework formerly used for distending the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips.

Origin of pannier

1250-1300; Middle English panier Middle French Latin pānārium breadbasket, equivalent to pān(is) bread + -ārium -ary; see -ier²

Examples for pannier

Kneel on the mare's head, reach under the pannier, find the latego, and cast off.

At least, matters are no worse than when you were in the pannier.

In the pannier she had been shaken about more than in a cockboat in a chopping sea.

Let's build a big fire, and sit down on the pannier canvases.

Chemerant was in the room of the Gascon when the pannier was brought in.

Here we spread the viands which had been brought in a pannier on the back of one of the mules.

At any moment her presence in that pannier might be betrayed.

Take your rods and pannier, and go for a couple of hours' fishing.

And to the men upon the waist-deck he shouted, "Open me that pannier."

I fear my beautiful specimens are spoiled in the pannier here.