pannikin
a small pan or metal cup.
Origin of pannikin
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How to use pannikin in a sentence
Seeing his prisoner firmly bound, he ventured within with the customary bowl of rice and pannikin of water.
The Argus Pheasant | John Charles BeechamUlick drew a pannikin of water and offered it to Constans that he might bathe his face, which was badly puffed and marked.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenPoetry in cabbage-stalks, eaten with all the mud on, and ditch water scooped up in a dirty pannikin!
Out in the Forty-Five | Emily Sarah HoltI said I could not look at it: and thereupon he gave me some brandy and water in a tin pannikin, and left me once more to myself.
Kidnapped | Robert Louis StevensonThe padre asked Lane if he would like a wad, that is a pannikin, of tea, and Lane said he would.
In the Line of Battle | Various
British Dictionary definitions for pannikin
/ (ˈpænɪkɪn) /
mainly British a small metal cup or pan
Origin of pannikin
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