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Brainpan means (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull..
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/ˈbɹeɪnpan/ · noun
(now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull..
Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.
‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’
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Brainpan means (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull..
Common synonyms include harnpan, skull, cranium, braincase.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
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