panhandle vs salient

panhandle

noun
  • On a map, any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan. 

  • The handle of a pan. 

  • The handle that activates an ejector seat. 

verb
  • To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a bum. 

salient

noun
  • An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense. 

  • 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9 

  • 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193 

  • On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront. 

  • The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep. 

  • An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state. 

adj
  • Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. 

  • Projecting outwards, pointing outwards. 

  • Depicted in a leaping posture. 

  • Prominent; conspicuous. 

  • Denoting any angle less than two right angles. 

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