PANNIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pannier mean? 

• PANNIER (noun)
  The noun PANNIER has 3 senses:

1. either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)

2. a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person

3. set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips

  Familiarity information: PANNIER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANNIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pannier" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pannier" is a kind of...):

wicker basket (a basket made of wickerwork)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pannier" is a kind of...):

hoop (a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt)

 Context examples 

Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They took with them the sumpter mules, which carried in panniers the wardrobe and table furniture of Sir Nigel; for the knight, though neither fop nor epicure, was very dainty in small matters, and loved, however bare the board or hard the life, that his napery should still be white and his spoon of silver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)