pandy

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

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

To slap, as the hand.

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

A fulling mill.

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