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Webster 1913 Edition

Bandy

Ban′dy

(băn′dy̆)
,
Noun.
[Telugu
baṇḍi
.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Ban′dy

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Bandies
(-dĭz)
.
[Cf. F.
bandé
, p. p. of
bander
to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr.
bande
. See
Band
,
Noun.
]
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.

Ban′dy

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bandied
(băn′dē̍d)
;
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 person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; – of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
Let not obvious and known truth be
bandied
about in a disputation.
I. Watts.

Ban′dy

,
Verb.
I.
To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
Fit to
bandy
with thy lawless sons.
Shakespeare

Ban′dy

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Bandy

BAND'Y

,
Noun.
[L.pando.] A club for striking a ball at play.

BAND'Y

,
Verb.
T.
To beat to and fro, as a ball in play.
2.
To exchange; to give and receive reciprocally; as, to bandy looks.
3.
To agitate; to toss about, as from man to man.
Let not known truth be bandied in disputation.
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BAND'Y

,
Verb.
I.
To contend, as at some game, in which strives to drive the ball his own way.

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