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plural panhandles
The handle of a pan. examples
(cartography, US) On a map, any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; a salient. examples
(aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat. quotations examples
The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.
2007, Roger Brooks, Handley Page Victor, volume 2
third-person singular simple present panhandles, present participle panhandling, simple past and past participle panhandled
(US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a bum. quotations examples
I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.
2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine