▪ I. pantle, n. Now dial.
(ˈpænt(ə)l)
Forms: 5 pantelle, 6 -el(l, 9 pantle.
[app. an altered form of panter2.]
A snare for birds, esp. snipe.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 268/1 Pantelle strynge (A. A Pantyr), pedica. 1552 Huloet, Pantell, setter, or snare, pedica. 1856 J. Davies Races 237 (E.D.D.). 1882 Lancash. Gloss., Pantle, a bird-snare made of hair. 1893 J. Watson Conf. Poacher 39 We used to take them [snipe] in pantles made of twisted horsehair. 1897 Macpherson Wild-fowling 458 (E.D.D.) In South Furness men snare snipe by means of engines locally called pantles. |
▪ II. ˈpantle, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. pant v. with dim. or frequentative ending -le.]
intr. To pant.
| [1632 Rowley Woman Never Vexed ii. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 128 My heart! O my heart! if it does not go pantle, pantle, pantle..I am no honest woman.] 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 222 The Italian..foamed at the mouth..and fetched a pantling breath. 1678 Cotton Scarron. iv. 142 Although her woful heart did pantle. 1875 Porson Quaint Words 15. 1890 Glouc. Gloss., Pantle, to pant. [Also S. Worcestersh. (E.D.D.).] |