brainpan
noun/ˈbɹeɪnpan/UK
Etymology
From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræġnpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.
- inherited from bræġnpanne
- inherited from brayn panne
Definitions
The braincase
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.
The brain or mind.
- ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for brainpan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA