Ranter vs Panter - What's the difference?
ranter | panter |
One who pants.
* Congreve
(obsolete) A net; a noose.
* Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
As nouns the difference between ranter and panter
is that ranter is one who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer while panter is one who pants.panter
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.