The rope which binds a ship’s boat to the ship. (Latin, panthĕra; French, pantière, a drag-net; panteur, a stretcher.)
Iʹll cut your painter for you. Iʹll send you to the right about in double quick time. If the painter is cut, of course the boat drifts away.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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