panter

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Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. One who pants.

   • Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.

   • 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (volume 60, page 492)

     Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. (obsolete) A net; a noose.
   • , 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.

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. Obsolete form of panther#English|panther.

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