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brainpan

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɹeɪnpan/Part of speech nounSorted aabinnprStarts with BEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the part of the skull that encloses the brain

Word origin

From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræġnpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.

Used in a sentence

  • Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
  • Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
  • Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.

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