• Panter

    Origin 1

    Full definition of panter

    Noun

    panter

    (plural panters)
    1. One who pants.
      • CongreveSwiftly the gentle Charmer flies,
        And to the tender Grief soft Air applies,
        Which, warbling Mystic sounds,
        Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.

    Origin 2

    See painter a rope.

    Noun

    panter

    (plural panters)
    1. (obsolete) A net; a noose.
      • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to The Legend of Good WomenThe smalle fowles, of the season fain,That from the panter and the net ben scaped,Upon the fowler, that them made a-whapedIn winter, and destroyed had their brood.

    Origin 3

    French panetier.

    Noun

    panter

    (plural panters)
    1. A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
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