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Panter vs Punter - What's the difference?

panter | punter |

As nouns the difference between panter and punter

is that panter is panther while punter is one who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).

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 ----

    punter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).
  • One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
  • One who punts a football.
  • (British, slang) one who gambles. See speculator.
  • (British, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
  • A beginner or unskilled climber
  • Synonyms

    * (sense, prostitute's client) see