A narrow tract of land belonging to one State and bounded laterally by other States. The State is as it were a pan, of which this projection is the handle.
1862. I want to compare the district of Mr. Segar with the Wheeling district. One is called the pan-handle of the East, and the other the pan-handle of the West.—Mr. W. G. Brown of Va., House of Repr., Feb. 11: Cong. Globe, p. 754/3.
1888. The Panhandle of Texas offers desirable homes to a million of people, at a moderate price.—Missouri Republican, Feb. 24 (Farmer).
