Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bandy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bandy \Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bandy \Ban"dy\, n.; pl. {Bandies}. [Cf. F. band['e], p. p. of
bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See
{Band}, n.]
1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play;
a hockey stick. --Johnson.
2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy
ball.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bandied} (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Bandying}.]
1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . .
by rackets from without. --Cudworth.
2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. ``To bandy
hasty words.'' --Shak.
3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in
a disputation. --I. Watts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i.
To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive
the ball his own way.
Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bandy \Ban"dy\, a.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side
outward; as, a bandy leg.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bandy
adj : have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: {bandy-legged},
{bowed}, {bowleg}, {bowlegged}]
v 1: toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey,
etc.
2: exchange blows
3: discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult
questions" [syn: {kick around}]
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