panniermann.
/ˈpanɪəman/, U.S. /ˈpænjərˌmæn/, /ˈpæniərˌmæn/ 1. A man in charge of a pannier or panniers; esp. a hawker of fish, etc., who transports his goods to market in a pannier or panniers. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern) in later use).
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
1419 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 127 (MED) Willelmus Thebidell, panyerman.
1473 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 194 (MED) Thomas Webster, de Sewardby, fissher alias panyarman.
1583 in N. Riding Rec. (1894) New Ser. I. 251 Divers of the inhabytantes and other poore men panier-men.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. iv. 38 in Wks. II If the pannier-mans Iacke were euer better knowne by his loynes of mutton, I'le be flead.
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 78 Mock no panyer-men, your father was a fisher.
1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 219 Sea fish market is kept..for panniermen free of the city.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pannier-men, hawkers of fish or other goods in baskets or ‘panniers’ slung over the horse's back.
a1903 J. R. Boyle in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 419/2 Years ago these small merchants all kept asses and met the boats on their arrival, and after buying the fish it was loaded up on ‘panniers’ on the asses to bring it on to the mainland. They were then called ‘pannier-men’, and it has got corrupted to ‘pannymen’.
2003 www.nymcom.free-online.co.uk 16 Oct. (O.E.D. Archive) Two old gateposts..indicate one route taken by panniermen, drovers and smugglers.
2. A paid officer at the Inns of Court, who brought provisions from market and (in later times at least) had duties relating to the serving of meals. Cf. pannier n.2 Now historical.This office was abolished at the Inner Temple in 1900.
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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > paid officers of
pannierman1483
laundress1592
pannier1823
1483 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 78 [16s. paid to the] panereman.
1538 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 251 No horses shall be putt in the Conygarye, butt onlye one horse for the Panyar man.
1601 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 156 The paniarman..shall alsoe have iii li. allowed him for..his wantinge of pasture and provision..for his horse.
1607 E. Sharpham Cvpids Whirligig iv. i I was once put out of comons before, for beating of the panyard man.
1616 Black Bks. Lincoln's Inn (1898) II. 185 It is further ordered that the flesh and fish shall not be caryed in one pannyer uncleanelye and uncovered, but that the Pannyerman shall have one pannyer for fish and another for flesh.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Pannier-man, in the Inns of Court, is one whose Office is to blow the Horn for Dinner, and wait at the Barristers Table.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Pannier Man, a servant belonging to the Temple and Gray's Inn, whose office is to announce the dinner.
1842 Black Bks. Lincoln's Inn 214 That the Pannierman do see that this order be observed.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1290/1 In the Inns of Court one of the Inn servants used a horse with panniers to convey the supplies of provisions required for use in hall, and was known as the pannier-man.
1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 544/2 The daughter of (Daniel) Francis Raisin, pannier-man at the Inner Temple.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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