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pannier
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A mule clattered past, its straw panniers thrust us against the adobe wall. ▪ As they carried away a pannier of my blood, I felt almost as bad as I pretended to be. ▪ I shall never forget his expression when he saw me arriving ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pannier is a storage container (basket, bag, or similar) used during transportation. Pannier can also refer to: Pannier tank locomotive , a type of steam locomotive Pannier (clothing) , an 18th-century undergarment
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large wicker basket (usually one of a pair) set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders. 2 A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits. 3 (context historical fashion English) One of a pair of hoops ...
Usage examples of pannier.
Vickers strapped to the humpy backs of a dozen camels, and the cases of ammunition riding high in the panniers.
The Earl of Northam indicated the stage, where Miss India Parr was standing with her fists resting on the wide panniers of her gown, and her elbows cocked sharply outward.
The unsearched panniers remained full of jumbled odds and ends and the Light knew what, but those she and Aviendha had emptied now bulged with coarse sacks of flour and salt, beans and lentils.
Yet she buys from posh London shops, has panniers of pricey victuals delivered by yak drovers each rustic dawn.
Kivrin still needed to fetch the blankets and the candles, but she wanted to put the sacraments in the panniers first.
She also filled up the panniers, and put the last of it on a packboard to carry herself.
The good man of the house perceiving her, said : O good and profitable pullet that feedest us every day with thy fruit, thou seemest as though thou wouldest give us some pittance for our dinner : Ho boy put the Pannier in the corner that the Hen may lay.
I had no bulging panniers of gold, no wagons, no cillas full of treasure for the beast on Shadow Mountain, no porters and servants and horned flenx to guard it all.
Floyt looked back grandly as Pokesnout took position, gazing over the shifting gawks, a number of the high backs bearing panniers of netvine.
She watched while Jondalar helped Ayla fasten the side basket panniers on Whinney with the harness arrangement she had devised.
Ayla had outfitted her earlier in harness and panniers in preparation for leaving.
Tulie looked at Ayla and the horse, with the travois and panniers, obviously impressed.
His companions left him where he lay on the ground, took his horse and panniers, and continued up the bank, ignoring his pleas to come back.
All I had was a few panniers to bribe the spoiled beast, but that, by the High Sorrows, would just have to be enough.
I calmed down and hurried back to the horses, impatient to get the panniers and take them to the eyrie entrance behind the waterfall.