(n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
(n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.
(n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
(n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't remember …" "Lying to Michael Howard," Mair reminds him, before Johnson finally collapses in a heap, his lights, pannier bag and reputation strewn across the bicycle lane.
(2) Recently, we showed that a highly purified cap-binding protein complex composed of the p220 and p28 subunits of eukaryotic initiation factor 4F, in a 1:1 molar ratio, restores protein synthesis in these cell-free translation systems (Lamphear, B.J., and Panniers, R. (1990) J. Biol.
(3) Initiation rates are quantified by measuring the amount of protein synthesis resulting from the run-off of ribosomes which have initiated during defined intervals in a modified in vitro protein-synthesizing system developed from Ehrlich ascites tumor cell lysates (Henshaw, E.C., and Panniers, R. (1983) Methods Enzymol.
(4) Support for this comes from recent studies showing inhibition of protein synthesis by calmodulin antagonists in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (Kumar, R. V., Panniers, R., Wolfman, A., and Henshaw, E.C.
(5) Sitting behind the desk in his pleasant corner office in a blue sweatshirt, with a pile of manuscripts to bundle into his bicycle panniers to take back to the north-west London home he shares with his wife, writer Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Franklin radiates competence rather than glamour.