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Dictionary: pan·han·dle1   (păn'hăn'dl) pronunciation

v. Informal, -dled, -dling, -dles.

v.intr.
To approach strangers and beg for money or food.

v.tr.
  1. To approach and beg from (a stranger).
  2. To obtain by approaching and begging from a stranger: panhandled money. See synonyms at cadge.

[Back-formation from panhandler, beggar : perhaps PAN1 + HANDLER.]

panhandler pan'han'dler n.

pan·han·dle2 (păn'hăn'dl) pronunciation
n.
  1. The handle of a pan.
  2. often Panhandle A narrow strip of territory projecting from a larger, broader area, as in Alaska, Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia.

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verb

    To ask or ask for as charity: beg, bum1, cadge. Slang mooch. See request.

 
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panhandle, in geography, a strip of land projecting from the main body of an area and shaped like the handle of a pan, such as the panhandles of West Virginia, Texas, and Alaska.


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Locations of panhandles within US states

A panhandle or salient is an informal geographic term for an elongated tail-like protrusion of a geo-political entity, such as an administrative division or a sovereign state that extends into another such entity as a peninsula extends into the sea. The former "folksy" term derives from the analogous part of a cooking pan and its use is generally confined to the United States. A term used elsewhere is salient, derived from military salients. A panhandle is similar to a peninsula in shape, but unlike a peninsula it is not surrounded by water on three sides (but may have water on one or two sides, like Florida's panhandle) and connected to a geographical mainland, but is a land region surrounded on three sides by land regions not of the same jurisdiction. Instead, a panhandle is delimited by a land border on at least two sides and extends out from the larger geographical body of the administrative unit. The panhandle shape is the result of arbitrarily drawn international or subnational boundaries, although the location of some administrative borders takes into account other considerations such as economic ties or topography. The state of Missouri has a protrusion with a less elongated shape, which is informally called the bootheel. Tallahassee, Florida is the largest city of any panhandle in the United States of America

Panhandles of the United States of America
State Largest city Population Area (sq. mi) Population density
(per sq. mi)
Alaska Juneau 72,954 35,138 2
Connecticut Stamford 220,209 96 2,294
Florida Tallahassee 1,222,492 11,304 108
Idaho Coeur d'Alene 295,160 21,013 14
Maryland Frederick 469,376 2,194 214
Nebraska Scottsbluff 90,410 14,258 6
Oklahoma Guymon 29,112 5,687 5
Texas Amarillo 402,862 25,824 16
Eastern West Virginia Martinsburg 212,483 3,499 61
Northern West Virginia Wheeling 141,060 601 235

Panhandles outside the United States

Outside of the United States, the term is not in common usage, with the arguable exception of the nearby New Brunswick Panhandle. Nonetheless, some people would describe the following characteristic territorial protrusions elsewhere as a corridor or an arm extending into an administratively different territory. Such shapes of territory can be a result of linguistic (or ethnic) lines, in addition to geographic features and other reasons.


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Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. intr. - tigge
v. tr. - tigge om

2.
n. - skaft på (stege)pande, langt, smalt areal

Nederlands (Dutch)
steel van pan, smalle strook (van staat etc.), op straat bedelen

Français (French)
1.
v. intr. - mendier
v. tr. - demander l'aumône

2.
n. - poignée (d'une casserole), isthme, canal

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - schnorren, betteln

2.
n. - Pfannenstiel, schmales Landstück

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χειρολαβή ρηχού μαγειρικού σκεύους
v. - επαιτώ, ζητιανεύω

Italiano (Italian)
manico di padella, corridorio territoriale (anche una parte geografica del Texas), mendicare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cabo da panela (m), enclave (m)
v. - mendigar (gír.,)

Русский (Russian)
попрошайничать

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. intr. - mendigar, pedir limosna, pordiosear
v. tr. - mendigar, pedir limosna, pordiosear

2.
n. - faja estrecha de un territorio que entra en otro estado, agarradera de una sartén, mango o agarradera de una cacerola

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stekpanneskaft, långsmal landremsa
v. - tigga på gatan

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 行乞, 向...乞讨, 讨得

2. 平锅柄, 狭长的土地

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 平鍋柄, 狹長的土地

2.
v. intr. - 行乞
v. tr. - 向...乞討, 討得

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. intr. - 길거리에서 구걸하다
v. tr. - 구걸하다

2.
n. - 납작 냄비의 손잡이

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 平なべの柄, 細長い地域
v. - 物ごいをする, 物乞いをする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) يد المقلاة, لسان أرض شبيهه بالمقلاة (فعل) يستجدي, يستعطف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮ביקש נדבות‬
v. tr. - ‮ביקש נדבות‬
n. - ‮רצועת אדמה צרה, בליטה צרה של מדינה לתוך מדינה אחרת, איזור-ספר, טריז טריטוריאלי‬


 
 

 

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