panned

Sealing, Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

killed and stacked in pans (def. 2).

See: pan ((n.))(def. 2),pan ((v.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1878

When she left the ice the Tiger, with 2,000 on board, was alongside a sufficient number of panned seals to fill her.

1901

The stealing of panned seals has been a fruitful source of litigation, and of a good deal of hard swearing.

1965

. . . panned seal skins flattened and piled for easy transport over the ice and for stowing in the vessel.

2adj.

of a ship, loaded with pans (def. 2) of seal skins.

See: pan ((n.))(def. 2)

1927, 1965

All panned and safely stowed below, with colors waving gay, / The Southern Cross she left the ice, bound up for home that day.