panshon

English

Etymology

Related to pancheon?

Noun

panshon (plural panshons)

1. (UK, dialect) An earthen vessel, wider at the top than at the bottom, used for holding milk etc.
   • 1839, Abel Bywater, The Sheffield Dialect:

     Tom struck at tratten wit beesom, an't heead floid intoo a panshon ful a watter, an nok't soide haht

References

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