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Definition of Panhandle
1. Noun. A relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area. "Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia"
2. Verb. Beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money.
3. Noun. The handle of a pan.
Definition of Panhandle
1. n. The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
Definition of Panhandle
1. Noun. The handle of a pan. ¹
2. Noun. (cartography) (American English) On a map, where a part of a political entity forms a longish extension such that it resembles the handle of a pan, as with a frying pan. ¹
3. Verb. (American English) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, by a bum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Panhandle
1. [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panhandle
Literary usage of Panhandle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Effects of the Eruptions of Mount St. Helens on Physical, Chemical, and by Douglas B. Lee (1998)
"180) performed most of the research on panhandle Lake, which is approximately 10
miles ... Mountain ridges partially shielded panhandle Lake from the blast. ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"It has been an object of such interest to the people of the panhandle that it
was considered by Canadian Academy to be of sufficient importance to demand a ..."
3. Through Texas: A Series of Interesting Letters by Walter Barlow Stevens (1892)
"In the panhandle the wheat crop is spoken of as a failure. That is because the
panhandle farmer considers anything less than twelve bushels a failure. ..."
4. Adventure Guide to Texas by Kimberly Young (1999)
"North Texas & the panhandle • The Land The North Texas that this book depicts is
really a marriage of two districts: North Texas blackland prairie and the ..."
5. The Great Wall of China by William Edgar Geil (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVI The panhandle of China. The City of Su The panhandle of China is
the land of rhubarb, whence originally came the whole stock of that edible on ..."
6. Romantic Weekends in Texas by Mary Lu Abbott (2003)
"^panhandle £~7~he Texas of cowboys and / ranches, big skies and open spaces ...
Behold, vineyards thrive in the sundrenched panhandle, and its flat plains ..."
7. Seeing the Sunny South by John Thomson Faris (1921)
"CHAPTER XXXIV IN THE panhandle OF WEST VIRGINIA BF ancestry West Virginia belongs
to the North, for many of her first settlers came from Pennsylvania, ..."
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