Definitions
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- noun A stout leather
strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflictpunishment - especially by using it to strike against the open uplifted hands on schoolboys.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why did Mr Barrett in Clongowes call his pandybat a turkey?
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Why did Mr Barrett in Clongowes call his pandybat a turkey?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Why did Mr Barrett in Clongowes call his pandybat a turkey?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Why did Mr Barrett in Clongowes call his pandybat a turkey?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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The pandybat came down again in six loud quick smacks. —
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The pandybat came down on it with a loud smacking sound: one, two, three, four, five, six. —
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He banged his pandybat down on the desk and cried: —
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There was an instant of dead silence and then the loud crack of a pandybat on the last desk.
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He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike.
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He poked one of the boys in the side with his pandybat, saying: —
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