Definition of pandybat:
(n) :
a stout leather
strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict
punishment - especially by using it to strike against the open uplifted hands on schoolboys
"the soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening...pain made his hand shrink together... - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 1916"
Definition of pandybat:
(n) :
a stout leather
strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict
punishment - especially by using it to strike against the open uplifted hands on schoolboys
"the soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening...pain made his hand shrink together... - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 1916"