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Pane   /peɪn/   Listen
noun
Pane  n.  The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.


Pane  n.  
1.
A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
2.
One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
3.
(Arch.)
(a)
A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
(b)
Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash; a windowpane.
4.
In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
5.
(a)
One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
(b)
One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.


Peen  n.  
1.
A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
2.
The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. (Spelt also pane, pein, and piend)





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"Pane" Quotes from Famous Books



... commemorate the execution of Anna Bonanno, la Velenatrice, detta la Vecchia dell' Aceto, who sold poisoned vinegar. There is no regular day for Samson; they do it whenever they feel inclined, that is whenever they want a few more soldi than usual, for they look upon the paladins as the pane quotidiano and on the interpolations, for which they charge ...
— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones
... reading. Not face downward, on a rug and with swiftly-moving eyes and hurrying breath, as was her custom with a living book, but she had merely picked up the History of England and sat with it quite listlessly on a chair. And Muffie was standing at the window, breathing on a pane from time to time and then drearily drawing ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... one of those timid natures that are paralysed by sudden surprise or fear. Had it not been so, the apparition of his face against the pane, his intense and hungry gaze, would have caused her to wake the house with a scream. But she sat staring at him with her wide grey eyes, like one turned to stone, until she saw that her first impression of a burglar was false, and then that her lover ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... awake until she heard a heavy rap on the window pane. It was scarcely light, and Will had sprung out of bed and had raised the window and was ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... fire and ponder While darkness veils the pane, And fear that your memories are rushing away In the ...
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott


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