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Examples
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Theoretically it was for drinking only, but I always stole a pannikinful for washing in the mornings.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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A tall boy of twenty, deeply windburnt, with his clothes in rags, crouched over the fire shovelling a pannikinful of stew into himself at desperate speed; and all the while his eyes flitted nervously round the ring of militiamen who stood watching him.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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The poor beggars were working like Trojans, their naked bodies streaming with perspiration, as Niâbon held out to each of them half a pannikinful of raw gin, which was tossed off at one swallow.
The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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"Shall we sleep here till morning?" asked Ailie, munching her hard biscuit and drinking her tin pannikinful of cold water with great relish, for she was very hungry.
The Red Eric 1859
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