Pannier

1. n. A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
2. n. A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
3. n. A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy’s missiles.
4. n. A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.