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pandybat

pandybat 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 pandybat

pluralpandybats

Questions about pandybat

What is pandybat the alternative form of?
Pandybat is the alternative form of pandy bat.

Words near pandybat in the dictionary

  1. pandy bat
  2. pandy-bat
  3. Pandy-rhiw-Saeson
  4. Pandya
  5. Pandyas
  6. pandybat
  7. pandybats
  8. pandying
  9. pandysautonomia
  10. pandysautonomias
  11. pandysautonomic

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