pandy bat

Alternative forms

 * pandy-bat, pandybat

Etymology
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Perhaps also a pun on the Latin "you paid".

Noun

 * 1)   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;   more loosely applied to any punishment bat
 * 2) * 1930 Irish Province News, 5th Year No 3 (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus) "Obituary: Fr James Daly"
 * All this punctuated, driven home, by loud-resounding strokes of the pandy-bat, not administered one after another quickly, but at regular intervals.
 * 1) * 1957 Irish Province News, 32nd Year No 3 (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus)  "Obituary: Fr Esmonde White (1875-1957)"
 * While Prefect of Studies in Belvedere Junior House, he combined gentleness with severity in such perfect measure that a past pupil recalls: “He hit very hard with the pandy bat but obviously felt every bit as miserable about it as the unfortunate victim!”
 * 1) * 2010 Martin Tierney, ''Reflections of a Dublin priest (Dublin : Columba Press) ISBN 978 1 85607 701 9 p. 19
 * Corporal punishment was administered by use of a thick leather strap called a ‘pandy bat’.
 * 1) * 2010 Martin Tierney, ''Reflections of a Dublin priest (Dublin : Columba Press) ISBN 978 1 85607 701 9 p. 19
 * Corporal punishment was administered by use of a thick leather strap called a ‘pandy bat’.
 * 1) * 2010 Martin Tierney, ''Reflections of a Dublin priest (Dublin : Columba Press) ISBN 978 1 85607 701 9 p. 19
 * Corporal punishment was administered by use of a thick leather strap called a ‘pandy bat’.
 * Corporal punishment was administered by use of a thick leather strap called a ‘pandy bat’.