BANDY

n. v. a.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

2.
n.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

3.
n.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.

6.
v.

To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.

7.
v.

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.

8.
a.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.


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