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plural pannikels
(obsolete) The brain-pan, or skull; hence, the crest. quotations
To him he turned, and with rigor fell / Smote him so rudely on the pannikell
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie