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panned |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pan \Pan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Panned}; p. pr & vb n. {Panning}.] (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.] We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. --Gen. W. T. Sherman.
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