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pandy-bat

pandy-bat is the alternative form of pandy bat.

Meaning of pandy bat

Noun

pandy bat (plural pandy bats)

  1. (Ireland, historical) (originally) a stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead, and used at Jesuit schools to inflict corporal punishment on pupils by striking the palm; (latterly, sometimes) more loosely applied to any punishment bat
    • The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together […]1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

Forms of pandy-bat

pluralpandy-bats

Questions about pandy-bat

What is pandy-bat the alternative form of?
Pandy-bat is the alternative form of pandy bat.

Words near pandy-bat in the dictionary

  1. pandurinas
  2. Panduro
  3. Panduros
  4. pandy
  5. pandy bat
  6. pandy-bat
  7. Pandy-rhiw-Saeson
  8. Pandya
  9. Pandyas
  10. pandybat
  11. pandybats

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