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Panter vs Butler - What's the difference?

panter | butler |

As a noun panter

is panther.

As a proper noun butler is

.

panter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who pants.
  • * Congreve
    • Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter' s Wounds.

    Etymology 2

    See (painter) a rope.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A net; a noose.
  • * Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
    • The smalle fowles, of the season fain,
    That from the panter and the net ben scaped,
    Upon the fowler, that them made a-whaped
    In winter, and destroyed had their brood.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) panetier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
    • (Tyndale)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----

    butler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  • The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
  • * 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
  • *:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
  • A valet, a male personal attendant.

    • Derived terms

    * buttle (backformation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

    • References