Meaning

The handle of a pan..

Definitions by Sense

1. The handle of a pan.
2. (cartography, US) An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
3. (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
4. (intransitive, US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.
5. (transitive, figuratively, uncommon) To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.

Example Sentences

The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.

I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.

Word Forms

• panhandles
• panhandling
• panhandled

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