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noun

Pane n. The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

Pane n.

A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

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.

(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.

In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Pane'

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"Pane" Quotes from Famous Books

... coat, ye thief!" he cried, tapping fiercely on the pane. "Tak' it aff at onst, ye muckle gowk, or I'll come and tear it aff ye. D'ye see him, Wullie? the great coof has ma coat—me black coat, new last Michaelmas, and it rainin' ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

... fast, and as the drops pattered on the window pane, they seemed like tears for the poor fellow lying unburied in the hole yonder; but we let him lie unburied, as we knew he was past all harm from catarrh or rheumatism, and every ...

— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling

... roused by a crash from the kitchen, a shriek from Betty, and the sound of a shattered window-pane; for Betty, finding that the outside door stuck fast, had hurled a frying-pan through the window. Then she ran to the sewing-room as the life-giving breeze poured in through the ...

— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey

... comprehensive, and passionate statement Mr. Jack Hamlin made no reply. An audacity so supreme had conquered his. He walked to the window, looked out upon the dark, rain-filmed pane that, however, reflected no equal change in his own dark eyes, and then returned and walked round the kitchen table. When he was at her back, without looking at her, he reached out his hand, took her passive one that lay on the table in his, grasped it heartily for a single moment, ...

— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... verifying the legend information was gleaned respecting another story of a captured lady who had been incarcerated in a room in the mansion and had written some verses to her lover with her diamond ring on a window-pane. The strange thing is that these stories, though obviously of different origin, appear now to have become fused in the popular imagination: the 'Green Lady' and the verse-writing damsel become one ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

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