Definitions for panniers

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panniers pan·nier

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

IPA: /ˈpæn yər, -i ər/

Panniers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in panniers (aeinnprs).

Definitions for panniers

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 panniers

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

Examples for panniers

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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