pannier

Part of speech: noun

A basket for carrying a load, as on a horse.

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Usage examples "pannier":

  1. At one booth harness is sold and high Turkish saddles, at another pannier baskets for mules. - "A Tramp's Sketches", Stephen Graham.
  2. Each was provided with a pannier of choice cobnuts, which he cracked with great gravity, throwing the shells to the multitude, an infernal ceremony, there held emblematic of their profession. - "The Infernal Marriage", Benjamin Disraeli.
  3. He began slowly unpacking the pannier, and laying its contents out on the mound. - "In the Wilderness", Robert Hichens.