Panning

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  • v. Present participle of pan.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process in which heavier ores are concentrated by agitating a sample of crushed ore under water in a shallow pan, thus washing away the lighter particles from the sample. See pan{1}, v. t. and pan{1}, v. i.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In mining, especially gold-mining, metal (gold) obtained in the process of panning. See pan, transitive verb, 1.
  • n. In tea manuf., treatment of the material in an iron vessel: in old Chinese practice, a light roasting of the leaf before and between rollings, now dispensed with in India
  • n. in making green tea, a steaming of the fresh leaf in its own juices to wither it for rolling
  • n. in Japan, same as pan-firing.
  • Word Usage
    "Then we go into final shaping, "panning" -- which means putting the shaped loaf on a pan."
    Verb Stem
    pan   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Banning    Canning    Channing    Manning    banning    branning    canning    enchanting    fanning    granting