The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PANE
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What does PANE mean?
PANE noun- An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
- A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
- A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
- A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
- One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
- A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
- A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
- To fit with panes.
- The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.