Bandy \Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.]

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

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Bandy \Ban"dy\, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)