pannern.

1853 Hogarth Jr. & H. Morley in Househ. Words 3 Dec. 322/1 Here is a pan half-full of gold. As the soil and small pebbles are skilfully washed out, and the yellow metal appears glistening beneath, the panner's eyes flash back upon it.

1890 Overland Monthly Jan. 29/2 Of a sudden there was an elated shout from the panners.

1938 Sci. Monthly June 542/1 The best panners were the Wasokire of Tukuyu, canny Bantu who were learning the value of gold much too fast to suit the greed of their white masters.

1998 Jakarta Post (Electronic ed.) 4 Oct. For all of the panners, the job is a total gamble in the sense that they do not have any means to know whether they will strike gold at all.

1927 E. Wallace in Morning Post 3 May 10/4 The real panners have nothing to do with the Press; they belong exclusively to the stage.

1944 O. Clapper in R. Clapper Watching World Biogr. Sketch 28 Almost daily throughout the war this anonymous panner, often treasonable and always insulting, wrote open postcards, addressing Ray as ‘Dear Stupid’.

2002 In these Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. 17 It's a straw man's argument to build a case for cinema's irrelevancy out of audience apathy or—as tempting as it might be for us panners—the failure of highly paid storytellers.