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ˈpannierman
[f. pannier n.1 + man.]
1. A man in charge of a pannier or panniers; esp. a hawker of fish, etc., who conveys his goods to market in panniers. ? Obs.
1583N. Riding Rec. N.S.I. (1894) 251 Divers of the inhabytantes and other poore men panier-men. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 321/2 If the pannier-man's jack was ever better known by his loins of mutton, I'll be flayed. 1678Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 78 Mock no panyer-men, your father was a fisher. 1736F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 219 Sea fish market is kept..for panniermen free of the city. 1900[see Eng. Dial. Dict.].
2. The name of a paid officer in the Inns of Court, who brought provisions from market (with a horse and panniers), and (in later times at least) had various duties in connexion with the serving of the meals, etc.: see quots. (Now obsolete.)
1482–3Black Bks. Linc. Inn lf. 54 Et de xvjs. solut. a le panereman. 1538Ibid. (ed. 1897) 251 No horses shall be putt in the Conygarye, butt onlye one horse for the Panyar man. 1601Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 156 The paniarman..shall alsoe have iii li. allowed him for..his wantinge of pasture and provision..for his horse. 1616Bl. Bks. Linc. Inn 185 It is further ordered that the flesh and fish shall not be caryed in one pannyer uncleanelye and uncovered, but that the Pannyerman shall have one pannyer for fish and another for flesh. 1624Pens. Bk. Gray's Inn 263 It is ordered..that the panierman shall have thirtie shillings a yeare..more..towards the bringinge home of the meat from the market. 1630–1Calend. Inner Temple Recds. (1898) II. 191 For a new horn for the panierman. 1650Wits Recreations Epit. lxxviii. M iij, On T. H. the Pannierman of the Temple. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Pannierman, in the Inns of Court, is one whose Office is to blow the Horn for Dinner, and wait at the Barristers Table. 1842Bl. Bks. Linc. Inn 214 That the Pannierman do see that this order be observed. 1846MS. Bks. Linc. Inn 19 Nov. [Latest mention] The daughters of Edward Clark late Pannierman to this Society. [1900Abolished at Inner Temple.] |