pantler

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Noun

pantler (plural pantlers)

1. (obsolete) The servant in charge of the bread and the pantry in a great house.
   • circa 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,

     A good shallow young fellow. ’A would have made a pantler; ’a would ha’ chipp’d bread well.

   • circa 1610 William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene4,

     Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon

     This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,

     Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;

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