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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, a.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side
outward; as a bandy leg.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bandy
adj : have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: {bandy-legged},
{bowed}, {bowleg}, {bowlegged}]
v 1: toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey,
etc
2: exchange blows
3: discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult
questions" [syn: {kick around}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bandy, VA
Zip code(s): 24602
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