Ban"dy (?), n. [Telugu bandi.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ban"dy, a.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
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