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Panhandle   Listen
noun
Panhandle  n.  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., Any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Panhandle" Quotes from Famous Books



... other men make it, by gosh!" Mr. Oliver said seriously. "I'm going into blue-printing with Ross, on the side. I've got nearly three thousand in Panhandle lots—" ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... whose nature he now experienced sudden misgivings. Suppose Willie, the sheepherder, had not, after all, been able to meet the requirements of a situation so delicate and so important! Curly had known the plains and the mountains all his life. He had ridden in the press of the buffalo herd in the Panhandle, had headed cattle stampedes in the breaks of the Pecos, had met the long-toed cinnamon bear all over these mountains that lay about him—had even heard the whisper of hostile lead as part of his own day's work,—but never before had ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

... honor, I like your honest simple face, and I won't desert you. Besides! I know a guy in Kalispell, and I can panhandle the sordid necessary chuck while I wait for you. Little you know, my cockerel, how facile a brain your 'bus so lightly bears. When I've cashed in on the mine, I'll take my rightful place among the motored ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Panhandle" :   panhandler, handle, grip, beg, handgrip, geographical region



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