English

Alternative forms

• panchion

Noun

pancheon ‎(plural pancheons)

1. (now Britain regional) A shallow dish used to stand milk while the cream separates, or in which to bake bread.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 248:

     The poem was finished, he took the bread out of the oven, arranging the burnt loaves at the bottom of the panchion, the good ones at the top.