Panter vs Painter - What's the difference?
panter | painter |
One who pants.
* Congreve
(obsolete) A net; a noose.
* Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
An artist who paints pictures.
A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
(label) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".
(label) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
(label) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) :
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- 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)- 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.Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----painter
English
(wikipedia painter)Etymology 1
From (paint), influenced by (etyl) paintre.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, painter's colic , painter-stainer}}Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- "Shove that (fat, wicker luncheon-basket) under your feet," he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Then he untied the painter and took the sculls again.
The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter , and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
