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Panhandle

noun

A relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area.

The handle of a pan.

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"Panhandle" Quotes from Famous Books

... under the surface placidity; you'd never have guessed what possibilities lay behind that immobile face, with its heavy-lashed hazel eyes and plain, thin-lipped mouth that tilted up just a bit at the corners. We had parted in the Texas Panhandle five years before—an unexpected, involuntary separation that grew out of a poker game with a tough crowd. The tumultuous events of that night sent me North in undignified haste, for I am not warlike by nature, ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... cows—which he was tending with solicitous care. The original stock of buffalo in the Park have now been reduced to fifteen or twenty individuals, and the intention is to try to mix them with the score of buffalo which have been purchased out of the Flat Head Lake and Texas Panhandle herds. The buffalo were put within a wire fence, which, when it was built, was found to have included both black-tail and white-tail deer. A bull elk was also put in with them at one time—he having met with some accident which made the Major and Buffalo Jones bring ...

— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

Words linked to "Panhandle" : geographical region, pan, geographical area, hold, handgrip, beg, geographic region, handle, grip, geographic area