pannier

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large wicker basket, especially.
• noun One of a pair of baskets carried on the shoulders of a person or on either side of a pack animal.
• noun A basket carried on a person's back.
• noun A basket or pack, usually one of a pair, that fastens to the rack of a bicycle and hangs over the side of one of the wheels.
• noun A framework of wire, bone, or other material formerly used to expand a woman's skirt at the hips.
• noun A skirt or an overskirt puffed out at the hips.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bread-basket; a basket for provisions; hence, any wicker basket.
• noun One of a pair of baskets slung across the back of a beast of burden to contain a load.
• noun A basket for carrying objects on the back of a man or woman, used in mountainous countries and where the use of beasts of burden is not common.
• noun 4. An adjunct of female dress, intended to distend the drapery of the skirt at the hips.
• noun A part of woman's head-dress; a stiff frame, as of wicker or wire, to maintain the head-dress in place.—6. In arch., same as corbel.
• noun A shield of twisted osiers used in the middle ages by archers, who fixed it in the ground in anupright position and stood behind it.
• noun 8. In hydraulic engineering, a basket or wickerwork gabion filled with gravel or sand, used in the construction of dikes, or to protect embankments, etc., from the erosion of water.
• noun In the inns of court, formerly, a servant who laid the cloths, set the salt-cellars, cut bread, waited on the gentlemen in term-time, blew the horn as a summons to dinner, and rang the bell; now, one of the domestics who wait in the hall of the inns at the time of dinner. Also pannier-man.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
• noun A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
• noun historical, fashion One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips
• noun a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person
• noun either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)