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(noun/adjective) - (1) The name by which half-timbered houses are known in some parts of England. --Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889 (2) A post-and-pan house is one formed of uprights and cross-pieces of timber which are not plastered over but generally blackened, as many old cottages are in various parts of England. The timbers in these structures is represented in the word post. The Anglo-Saxon word pan, or pane, a piece or portion, refers to the filled up interstices. We still use the word in the phrase pane of glass. --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
January 26, 2018