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A house. To do a panny: to rob a house. Probably, panny originally meant the butler’s pantry, where the knives and forks, spoons, etc. are usually kept. The pigs frisked my panny, and nailed my screws; the officers searched my house, and seized my picklock keys. CANT.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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