pantler Now only Hist.
(ˈpæntlə(r))
[app. an altered form of panter1, panterer, ? after butler. (Not in French, nor app. in med.L.)]
= panter1.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 33 The kyng tok þis pantelere, & strangled him right þore. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 381/2 Pantlere, panitarius. 1483 Cath. Angl. 268/1 A Pantelere, vbi A butlere. 1533 Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 21 The Earle of Arrondell butler, the Viscount Lisle pantler. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 258 Hee would haue made a good Pantler, hee would haue chipp'd Bread well. 1679 Blount Anc. Tenures 36 The Mannor..to be held by the service of being Pantler to the Kings..at their Coronations. 1706 Lond. Gaz. No. 4252/2 The Butler and the Pantler have taken his Name off the Tables in their Offices. 1842 Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Lay St. Cuthbert, Pantler and serving⁓man, henchman and page, Stand sniffing the duck-stuffing (onion and sage). |