GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 5 definitions

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   Bandy , n. [Telugu baṇḍi.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
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   Bandy, n.; pl. Bandies . [Cf. F. bandé, p. p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.]
    A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
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   The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
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   Bandy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
   To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
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   Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without.
   Cudworth.
   
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   To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. “To bandy hasty words.”
   Shak.
   
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   To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
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   Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
   I. Watts.
   
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   Bandy, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
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   Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.
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   Bandy, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
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