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.
2.
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
To bandy hasty words.
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.
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.
Bandy , adjective
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.