pannikin

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He is a man who has had six months' schooling only. iis first working plant was a nail can and a small pannikin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whitbread has at least shown that it can get an ocean of publicity for a pannikin of small change.

From Time Magazine Archive

He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other, and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without shouting.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.

From "1984" by George Orwell