Pandy

Word PANDY
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Definitions and meanings of "Pandy"

What do we mean by pandy?

To strike on the open palm of the hand with a cane or strap for punishment at school. transitive verb

A Hindu; a sepoy: especially applied by the British troops to the Sepoys in the Indian mutiny of 1857-8. noun

To slap, as the hand.

A stroke on the palm of the hand, as with a cane or strap; a punishment in schools. noun

To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment. verb

A fulling mill. noun

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The word "pandy" in example sentences

& pandy aka shankaraccarya hindutva party workers like babu bajrangi raping pragnent women are to be defened by party with a diierence president rajnath singh ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, this first of the Indian sepoy rebels gained an appropriate immortality: the British word for any native mutineer thereafter was "pandy". ❋ Unknown (2010)

My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rowbotham never lived to discover how mistaken he'd been: he and half his troop were lying stark out on the plain - his final miscalculation having been to time our rush to coincide with a pandy assault. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Moore and I trudged back through the pandy lines - and if anything was needed to convince me that surrender was imperative it was the sight of those glowering black faces at the gun emplacements and round the bivouacs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was staring and yelling after her, as her riders closed round her, for beyond them the gunners were racing towards us, with pandy riflemen in amongst them, turning and firing and running again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? ❋ Unknown (2010)

On either side of the slope there were groups of pandies with their bayonets fixed, glowering but doing nothing to help, and off to one side I saw a little gaily-dressed group of natives by a temple on a knoll - Azeemoolah was there, talking to Wheeler, who was gesturing towards the barges, so I walked across towards them, through the silent groups of pandy riflemen, and as I came up Azeemoolah was saying: ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew Kavanaugh, a great freckled Irish bumpkin of a civilian who'd spent the siege playing tig with pandy besiegers in the tunnels beneath our defences - mad as a hatter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew nothing of all this, of course; mouldering in my cell, with my beard sprouting and my hair matting, and my pandy uniform foul and stinking (for I'd never had it off since I put it on in Rose's camp), I might as well have been at the North Pole. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the pandies stirred, and pulled himself up on one knee; Wheeler, his arm still round the babu, whipped up his revolver and fired, and the pandy flopped back in the dust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All round was flat plain, stretching hundreds of yards to the encircling pandy lines which lay among half-ruined buildings and trees; a mile or less to the north-west was the great straggling mass of Cawnpore city itself, beside the river - but when anyone of my generation speaks of Cawnpore he means those two shattered barracks with the earth wall round them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was dawn, and across the flat maidan, in front of the pandy gun positions, men were moving - hundreds of them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I steadied myself as Sher Khan urged me forward, trying to take it in - it was a rebel army, no error, for there were pandy formations moving back towards us, and native state infantry and riders in uniforms I didn't know, men in crimson robes with little shields and curved tulwars, and gun-teams with artillery pieces fantastically carved in the native fashion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Poor wild John - he should have canvassed the Lord on his own behalf, perhaps, for while I'm still here after half a century, he was stiff inside the year, shot in the midriff by a pandy sniper in the attack on Delhi, and left to die by inches at the roadside. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He tried hard enough, but found that the pandy forces, while they didn't make best use of their overwhelming numbers, fought better defensive actions than anyone had expected, and Havelock got a couple of black eyes before he'd gone ten miles, and had to fall back. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We won't go too close - the pandy sharpshooters get a clear crack at it from that grove yonder, so we draw our water at night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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