pan-yard

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See also: panyard

English

Noun

pan-yard (plural pan-yards)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of panyard (pannier; bag or basket)
    • 1661 August 7, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 90–91:
      Called up at three o'clock, and was a-horseback by four; and as I was eating my breakfast I saw a man riding by that rode a little way upon the road with me last night; and he being going with venison in his pan-yards to London, I called him in and did give him his breakfast with me, and so we went together all the way.