panhandle

noun

1. The handle of a pan.
2. (US)An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
3. The handle that activates an ejector seat.

   “The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.”

verb

1. (US, intransitive)To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.

   “I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.”

2. (figuratively, transitive, uncommon)To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.

name

1. A city, the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States.
2. The Alaskan Panhandle.