Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bandy

Bandy (ban"dy) , noun

[Telugu bandi.]

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

Bandy (-diz) , noun

[Compare French bandé, past participle of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, from 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.

Bandy (ban"ded) , transitive verb

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. — Shakespeare
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

Bandy , intransitive verb

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

Bandy , adjective

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