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pan ((n.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a fairly substantial slab of ice broken off from a large expanse of ice; an ice floe.
Quotations
1771
I attempted to cross over at a place where the ice lay in small pans, and appeared to be firm. . . .
1841
Upon the pans were many hundreds of young seals, just pupped.
1966
Jimmy managed . . . to hook him with a sealing hook . . . and eventually to haul the youngster on to a larger pan after paddling to it...
2n. — Sealing, Nfld
a stack of sealskins marked with a flag or pennant to show the owner and left for later recovery.
See: pan ((v.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1907
We didn't form 'pans' (piles) of seals as they do now, but stuck pretty close to the vessel and hauled two seals a man.
1960
They killed and panned a heavy load with flags in every pan. . . .
1965
. . . they have to work sometimes half the night picking up the day's kill from the pans, and stowing them below
3a†n. — Placer Mining
a shallow, circular vessel used for separating gold from gravel, etc.
See: pan ((v.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1881
[The gold and sand] is put in a good pan with quick silver, and as the sand is washed out the gold amalgamates with the quick silver, forming a pasty mass.
1957
A pick, shovel and pan, stood outside, implements which had probably been there for the last fifty years.
3bn. — Placer Mining
a panful of gold-bearing gravel.
Quotations
1860
Two bits to the pan is an excellent prospect.
1936
She carried on, and then, in washing another pan, she obtained about twenty cents.
4n.
one of the broad curved surfaces of a moose's antlers.
Quotations
1925
. . . he had a spread of forty-seven inches, pans as broad as a tea-tray, with eighteen points. "Yes, sir, a record moose for these parts."