pannikel

English

Etymology

See pan (“a dish”).

Noun

pannikel (plural pannikels)

1. (obsolete) The brain-pan, or skull; hence, the crest.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To him he turned, and with rigor fell / Smote him so rudely on the pannikell

References

• “pannikel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.