The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pannel \Pan"nel\, n. [See Panel.]
A kind of rustic saddle.
--Tusser.(Falconry) The stomach of a hawk.
--Ainsworth.(Mil.) A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march.
--Farrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see panel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (obsolete form of panel English) 2 A kind of rustic saddle. 3 (context falconry English) The stomach of a hawk. 4 (context military dated English) A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed during a march.
Usage examples of "pannel".
Upon touching it, the pannel slides back, and a winding passage opens into the marble hall.
Certain that it was something more than a pannel, he exerted all his strength against it, but without producing any new effect.
It had been contrived that a spring which was concealed within, and which fastened the partition, should receive its impulse from the pressure of a certain part of the pannel, which was now touched by the foot of the Earl.
He explained to her the discovery of the pannel, by which circumstance he had found his way into that apartment.
He found all quiet, and closing the pannel in safety, sat down to consider the past, and anticipate the future.
Frenchman, and in what a pucker of passion the pannel put himself at every new interlocutor, none of which he could understand.
Mompessons, yet I was met by the same cruel unconcern that I had experienced in seeing the design on the pannel of the carriage belonging to Sir Perceval that had so alarmed my mother all those many years ago.
Signaling between skyships of this lost republic was accomplished by use of an elaborate semaphore array of lights and colored pannels which could be alternately hidden and revealed.
Soa as knockin wor useless aw started to bray, Till at last one oth pannels began to give way.
Before the revolution, the same shield, decorated the three pannels of the base of the monument.
Nothing daunted at sounds which, of such a nature, at such a time, and in such a place, might have curdled the very blood in hearts less irrecoverably on fire, the drunken couple burst open the pannels of the door, and staggered into the midst of things with a volley of curses.
The windows were small, to be sure, and the pitch rather low, but the whitewashed walls were pannelled, and I had some hopes of the ceiling.
The strange old man led the way across his bedroom to an inner chamber, oak pannelled, with very little furniture, but holding much treasure in the shape of trunks, portmanteaux--all very old and dusty--and two large wooden cases, banded with iron.
Emmeline entered her home by a hall pannelled with dark wainscot, and surrounded by carved doors, surmounted with heavy entablatures.
This, as far as we could judge from the accounts of foresters, was somewhere in the Gullet dingle among a thicket of hollies above the Dead Oaks, and where tradition says Sire John Oldcastle lay hid during three days when our house at Birtsmereton was searched by the bloodhounds of the Archbishop Arundel, and even our secret room in the pannelled chamber was considered to be unsafe.